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FESTIVAL 



SONS OF NEW HAxMPSHIRE: 



WITH THE 



SPEECHES 



Messrs. WEBSTER, WOODBURY, WILDER, BIGELOW, PARKER, DEARBORN, HUBBARD, 

GOODRICH, HALE, PLUMMER, WILSON, CHAMBERLAIN, AND OTHERS, 

TOGETHER WITH THE NAMES OF THOSE PRESENT, 

AND LETTERS FROM DISTINGUISHED 

INDIVIDUALS. 



CELEBRATED IN BOSTON, NOVEMBER 7, 1849. 



PHONOGRAPHIC REPORT BY DR. JAMES W. STONE, 

PRESIDENT OF THE BOSTON REPORTING ASSOCIATION. 



BOSTON: ^<£: 
JAMES FRENCH, 78 Washington Stkeet, 
1850. 



6 PREFACE. ^ 

the general satisfaction afforded by an interchange of 
thoughts and opinions that recalled domestic associa- 
tions, and those family circumstances connected with 
by-gone years, before they knew the busy world, had 
noted its phases, or made the discovery that each one 
has responsibilities resting upon him, and that progress 
in the social scale results from the combined action and 
determination of well regulated minds. 

By an examination of the various Speeches, and other 
accompanying illustrations of the manner of conducting 
the Festival, it will be apparent that the exhibition was 
an intellectual one of extraordinary interest. Very 
many who had fully intended to contribute liberally to 
the literary entertainment, were debarred solely on 
account of the lateness of the hour. 

This delightful and long to be remembered assembling 
of the Sons of New Hampshire, in the metropolis of 
the North, had its origin in a single mind ; but the 
realization of the idea far exceeded the warmest ex- 
pectations of those who assisted in the organization ; 
and it may now be viewed as a permanent association, 
indulging the hope of perpetuating those fraternal sen- 
timents on which it was based, while New Hampshire 
continues to furnish material for citizenship in the capi- 
tol of Massachusetts. 

In 1852 another opportunity will be presented for 
an expression of the affection which is felt for the 
mountain scenery, the streams, the green fields, the 
waving forests, and the friends and friendships that 
bind us to the place of our birth ; and may those who 
participated in the first, live to enjoy many repetitions 
of the same rational festivities. 



CONTENTS. 



GENEEAL. 

Page. 

Appendix, 121 

Bill of Fare, 14 

Errata, 4 

Grace by Dr. Peabody, 18 

Dr. Stow, 18 

Guests, invited and present, 17 

Introduction, • • . • « 3 

Mottoes and Sketches around the Hall,15 

OflBcers of the Festival, 11 

Oldest Son of New Hampshire,- 114, 128 

Origin of the Festival, 11 

Preface, 5 

Procession, order of 17 

LETTERS. 

Appleton's, 48, 130 

Atherton's, C. G. 124 

Atherton's, C. H. 62, 124 

Barnes', 145 

Bartlett's, 62, 135 

Bell's, J. 143 

BeU's, S. 129 

Burke's, 57, 132 

Butterfield's, 142 

Cass', 44, 121 

Dinsmoor's, 53, 1 29 

Dix's, 122 

Eastman's, LA. 138 

Eastman's, J. 139 

Evans', 122 

Folsom's, 141 

Freeman's, 144 

French's, 134 

Gilman's, 141 

Haddock's, 65, 126 

Harvey's, 137 



Paoe. 

Healy's, 62, 136 

Livermore's, 57, 130 

Martin's, 140 

Miller's, E. F. 143 

MiUer's,J. 65, 125 

Nichols', 62,135 

Norris', 123 

Pierce's, 132 

Plumer's, 38, 128 

Sullivan's, 62, 131 

Trcadwell's, 139 

Twitchell's, 140 

Wilcox's, 138 

Woods', 137 

Young's, 143 

POEMS. 

Bell's, Our Native Hills, Ill 

Fields', The Man in the Moon, 104 

French's, The Sons of Old New Hamp. 108 

Hale's, Our Granite Hills, 103 

Hale's, The Old Granite State, 116 

Kent's, The Old Granite State, 87 

Lady's, Original Hymn, 118 

Ladies' Petition, 81 

Mechanic's, New Hampshire's Voice,- -113 
Smith's, Pickwacket, 78 

REGISTRY OF NAMES. 

COUNTIES. 

Belknap, 172 

Carroll, 174 

Cheshire, 161 

Coos, 178 

Grafton, 175 

Hillsboro' 157 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 

Merrimac, 167 

Rockingham, 151 

Strafford, 170 

Sullivan, 1 65 

EESOLUTIONS. 

Bell's, Adjournment, 118 

Committee, Prof, of Law of Nations, ■ • 65 
Goodrich's, " " " 56, 65 
Smith's, Triennial Meetings, 112 

SENTIMENTS. 

First regular Toast, 29 

Second, 33 

Thii-d, 35 

Fourth, 38 

Fifth, 44 

Sixth, 53 

Seventh, 58 

Eighth, 62 

Ninth, 65 

Tenth, 67 

Abbott's, 107 

Api^leton's, 48 

Bancroft's, 117 

Bartlett's, I. 135 

Bartlett's, L. 117 

Batchelder's, 117 

Betton's, 112 

BigeloTv's, 37 

Bryant's, 103, 117 

Burke's, 57 

Butterfield's, 142 

Chamberlain's, 68 

Chickering's, 102 

Dowe's, 110 

Durkee's, 85 

Eastman's, 138 

Folsom's, 142 

Foster's, 110 

French's, B. B. 134 

French's, J. 117 

Gale's, 117 

Gregg's, 115 

Guest's, 101 



Page. 

Haddock's, 127 

Hale's, 62 

Healy's, 136 

Holman's, 110 

Hubbard's, 52 

Kent's, 102 

Lady's, 108 

Martin's, 141 

McNiel's, 102 

Miller's, 125 

Morse's, Nathan, New Hampshire and 

California, 102 

Nutter's, 108 

Parker's, E. 81 

Parker's, I. 102 

Simmons', 112 

Smith's, 102, 108, 117 

Stone's, 104, 117 

Stow's, 103 

Treadwell's, 140 

Volunteer, 107, 111, 112 

Webster's, 53, 131 

Wilder's, 34, 77 

Wilkins', 102 

Woodbury's, C. L. 117 

Woodbury's, L. 57 

SPEECHES. 

Abbott's, 107 

Bigelow's, 35 

Chamberlain's, 68 

Dearborn's, 45 

Durkee's, 83 

Emerson's, 86 

Gale's, Ill 

Goodrich's, 53 

Hale's, 58 

Hubbard's, 49 

McNiel's, 101 

Parker's, E. 80 

Parker's, J. 38 

Plummer's, 62 

Smith's, 77 

Webster's,- • -19, 37, 44, 48, 56, 62, 65, 68 

Wilder's, 33, 77 

Wilson's, 65 

Woodbury's, • • • • • • • 30 



/ 



NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIYAL, 



HELD IN BOSTON, NOVEMBER 7tii, 1849. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 



The proposition for a Social Celebration of the Sons of New 
Hampshire, originated with Dr. J. V. C. Smith, who afterwards 
acted as one of the Executive Committee. He sent invitations to 
several individuals to meet at his house, on the evening of October 
9th, and bj these persons a call was issued for a public meeting, 
at which, arrangements were made for the Festival. 

The following organization was effected : — 

PRESIDENT. 

HON. DANIEL WEBSTER. 



VICE PRESIDENTS. 



MARSHALL P. WILDER, 
SAMUEL APPLETON, 
JOSEPH BELL, 
H. A. S. DEARBORN, 
JOHN McNIEL, 
NATIL\J^ APPLETON, 
NINIAN C. BETTON, 
EBENEZER CILVDWICK, 
JAMES C. MERRILL, 
JONAS CHICKERING, 
CHARLES G. GREENE, 
JAMES W. PAIGE, 
LEVI BARTLETT, 
ISAAC DANFORTH, 
GEORGE KENT, 



WILLIAM WASHBURN, 
TIMOTHY UPHAM, 
ISAAC PARIiER, 
TIMOTHY FARRAR, 
SAMUEL BATCHELDER, 
WILLIAM D. TICIvNOR, 
JOHN L. EMMONS, 
JOHN C. PROCTOR, 
WiVI.TER BRYENT, 
FREDERICK EMERSON, 
SAMUEL GREELE, 
THOMAS SIMMONS, 
JONAS C. MARCH, 
EZRA C. HUTCHINS, 
JOHN H. WILKINS. 



12 



NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 



COMMITTEES. 



EXECUTIVE C0:.I1IITTEE. 

FLETCHER WEBSTER, JERO:*IE V. C. SMITH, 

CHARLES A. WELLS, JOSEPH M. BELL. 
DANIEL D. BRODHEAD, 



ON INVITATIONS. 

MARSHALL P. WILDER, GEORGE W. GORDON, 

CHARLES G. GREENE, ISAAC 0. BARNES, 

J. V. C. S3HTH, JOHN P. HEALY, 

CILIRLES A. WELLS, FLETCHER WEBSTER. 
CHARLES B. GOODRICH, 



on finance. 

ebenezer ch.vdwick, john s. jen'n'ess, 

george w. crocivett, daniel d. brodhead, 

ja:\ies s. wiggin, am:\ii b. young, 

DANIEL TAYLOR, ISAAC PARIvER. 

SAMUEL BATCHELDER, 



ON HALL AND DECORATIONS. 

JAMES W. PAIGE, ROBERT I. BURBANK, 

J. V. C. SMITH, THOIVLIS W. PIERCE, 

NAT D. HUBBARD. HENRY WILSON, 

WILLLUI WASIIBITvN, ISAAC W. FRYE. 

JAMES A. ABBOTT, 



ON DINNER. 

CHARLES A. WELLS, SAMUEL GREELE, 

WILLIAM II. PRENTICE, CHARLES WILKDsS, 

DANIEL CHAMBERLAIN, SILAS DURKEE, 

DAVID BRYANT, JI-:SSE MAYNARD. 

WILLIAM WASHBURN, 



N M U S I C . 

HARVEY JEWELL, LUCIAN GALE, 

WILLIAM H. FARRAR, EZRA FORRISTALL. 



ORGANIZATION. 



13 



ON TOASTS 



S-UIUEL GEEELK, 
NATILVN T. DOW, 
CHARLES AV. .AIAECII, 
FLETCIIEK WEBSTEU, 
JOSEPH M. BELL, 



CILVRLES G. GREENE, 
JAMES A. ABBOTT, 
GEORGE KENT, 
STEPHEN G. NASH. 



MARSHALS 



Aids. 



CHIEF MAR S II A L . 

HORACE G. HUT CHINS. 
JABEZ B. UPHAM, BENJAJVIIN B. CHENEY. 



Aids. 



MARSHALS. 

WILLIAM E. RUSSELL, Chief or Cheshiee Division. 

WILLIAM BINGHAM, " " Sillivan 

DAVID H. MASON, " " Coos 

THOMAS H. S.MITH, " " Belknap 

ALBERT LITTLE, " " Cakroll 

HENRY WELLES SillTH, " " Gkafton 

JOHN L. HANSON, " « Strafford 

FRANCIS S. GREENLEAF, " " Meerimac 

J. WARREN TOWLE, " " Rockingham 

THOMAS P. WILSON, " " IIii.LsnoEo' 



14 



NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 



The Festival was held in the large Hall over the Fitchburg 
Railroad Depot, where a Dinner was provided for fifteen hundred 
people, by Mr. John Wright, with the following 



BILL OF FARE 



BOILED. 

HAM, 
TONGUE, 

SALTPETRED BEEF, 
TURKEYS, OYSTER SAUCE. 
MUTTON, CAPER SAUCE. 

ENTREES. 

FRICANDEAU VEAL, TOMATO SAUCE, 

FRICASSEE CHICKEN, 

ESCOLLOPED OYSTERS, 

CURRIED CHICKENS, 

OYSTER PATTIES, 

SWEET BREADS, LARDED, 

CHICKEN SALAD, 

BONED TURKEYS. 





ROAST. 




BEEF, 




CHICKENS, 


VEAL, 




DUCKS, 


LAMB, 




MONGREL GEESE, 


TURKEYS, 


GAME. 


MOUNTAIN GEESE, 


BLACK DUCKS, 




PARTRIDGES, 


WOOD DUCKS, 




QUAILS. 


WIDGEONS, 







SQUASH, 
POTATOES, 



VEGETABLES. 



TURNIPS, 
CELERY. 



BILL OF FARE. 



15 



PASTRY. 

WASHINGTON PIES, 
MINCE PIES, 
APPLE PIES, 
CRANBERRY PIES, 
PEACH PIES, 
SQUASH PIES, 
QUINCE PIES, 



CUSTARDS, 
CHARLOTTE RUSSE, 
MERINGUES, 
COCOANUT CAKES, 
POUND CAKES, 
FRUIT CAKES, 
CHARLOTTE d'oRCEY. 



TABLE OKNAMENTS AND TURKS' CAPS. 





DESSEET 


. 


ICE CREAMS, 




RAISINS, 


JELLIES, 




FIGS, 


APPLES, 




GRAPES, 


ORANGES, 




PEARS. 


NUTS, 







LEMONADE AND COFFEE. 



The Hall was lighted by Gas, then introduced for the first time. 
In front of the Chair, several New Hampshire Gold Fish were 
swimming in a beautiful Fountain, which cooled the atmosphere, 
and interested the spectators with a variety of jets. 

The Hall, one hundred and sixty-nine feet by seventy-six, con- 
tained thirty long tables, with thirteen hundred and forty-four 
plates ; about one hundred and fifty more being added, after the 
procession entered the building. On the west of the Hall was an 
elevated platform for the President and invited guests, and directly 
opposite, accommodations for the Orchestra. 

Around the Hall were Sketches and Mottoes, representing the 
rise and progress of the Sons of New Hampshire. 

No. 1. Behind Mr. AVebster's chair was a view of "Elms Farm," 
his estate in Franklin, N. H., surmounted by the stars and stripes of 
the American Fla^j. 



16 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

No. 2. A sketch of a small farm-house at the base of a mountain. 
Motto above, " New Hampshire has a man for any place." Ueneath, 
" AVhere the New Hampshire boy was born." 

No. 3. Sketch of a youth leaving home with a pack on his back, 
and a guide-board directing him to " Boston." IMotto above, "There is 
energy in youth, and rest in age." Beneath, "He goes to seek his 
fortune." 

No. 4. Represents the youth in the city proceeding to church. 
Motto above, "Morals before money." Beneath, "He goes to church 
on arriving at the city." 

No. 5. Sketch of a city block, occupied with stores, shops, and 
offices, with a great variety of signs, to represent the nature of the 
business. Motto above, "The bees that thrive are in a hive." Be- 
neath, " He is active in business." 

No. 6. Sea view, a ship entering port under full sail, and a wharf 
covered with people, bales and boxes of merchandise, tea chests, &c. 
Motto above, " Unbind and Find." Beneath, " He is an Importer." 

No. 7. View of a steamship leaving Boston harbor. IMotto above, 
"All men born free and equal" Beneath, " He visits Euroi)e." 

No. 8. A mammoth workshop, with forges, &c., in full blast. 
Motto above, " By blows it goes." Beneath, " He is an ingenious 
Mechanic." 

No. 9. Sea view, and a variety of vessels passing a light-house. 
Motto above, "Gales fill the sails." Beneath, "He owns Ships." 

No. 10. A Court scene, in an old-fashioned Court-house. Motto 
above, "Fat fees and judicial ease." Beneath, "He is eminent in 
Law." 

No. 11. Over the orchestra is represented a familiar scene in a 
sick room or hospital, with the "New Hampshire Boy" in a medi- 
tating mood. Motto beneath, " He is a Physician, Philosopher, and 
Author." 

No. 12. Interior of an ancient "meeting-house," with the clergy- 
man in old style dress. Motto above, " Revere what you hear." 
Beneath, " He is a celebrated Divine." 

No. 13. Scene in an Editor's sanctum. Newspapers scattered 
over the floor, among which " Hill's New Hampshire Patriot," " Bos- 
ton Atlas," " jMorning Post," " Boston Courier," and " Globe," are 
discernible ; Editor at his desk perusing the " Chronotype." Motto 
above, " Pits in Politics." Beneath, " He is an influential Editor." 

No. 14. A beautiful private mansion, with trees, &c., and "Beacon 
Street" on one corner of it. Motto above, "A good name is an 
estate." Beneath, " He lives in opulence." 



DECORATIONS. 17 

No. 1 5. Waterfull and extensive fixctories. Motto above, " Spin 
ami Win." Beneath, " He is a Manufacturer." 

No. IG. A train of cars dashing through a ravine between high 
hills. Motto above, " Can't we go faster." Beneath, '• He builds 
Railroads." 

No. 17. View of the Capitol at Washington. Motto above, "As- 
pire to rise higher." Beneath, " He is in Congress." 

No. 18. View of the President's Mansion at Washington, with 
crowds in the foreground, waving their hats. Motto above, "The 
people rule." Beneath, " He is nominated for President." 

No. 19. The Hall of the State Department. Motto above, " Thus 
says the Constitution." Beneath, " He is a Cabinet Minister." 

No. 20. A rural scene and Agricultural operations. Motto above, 
" The noblest employment of all." Beneath, " He is a Farmer." 

No. 21. Sketch comprehending all manner of natural obstacles, 
with a "native" on a pinnacle of rock, as if he had surmounted them 
all. The rock projects into the river, upon which are steamers and 
sail-boats. Motto above, " Be wise and rise." Beneath, " He can do 
any thing." 

The Procession formed at three o'clock at the State House, and 
marched thence through Park, Tremont, Court, and State Streets, 
Merchants' Eow, Ann, Blackstone, and Haverhill Streets, to the 
Hall of the Fitchburg Railroad Depot, under the escort of Flagg's 
Brass Band and Bond's Cornet Band. 

The Chair was taken by Mil. Webster, about four o'clock, p. m. 
On his right, we noticed the following invited guests : Bev. Dr. 
Ephraim Peabody, of Boston ; Hon. Salma Hale, the Historian ; 
Hon. Joel Parker, Professor of La^y at Cambridge ; Thomas M. 
Edwards, Esq., President of the Cheshire Railroad Corporation; 
Col. William Schouler, Editor of the Boston Atlas ; Mr. Charles 
W. Cutter, Navy Agent at Portsmouth ; Mr. Gilman Marston, of 
Exeter, N. H. ; Hon. Levi Chamberlain, recent Whig Candidate for 
Governor ; Judge Nathaniel G. Upham, Superintendent of the 
Concord Railroad ; Rev. jMr. Lambert, of Charlestown ; Rev. 
Samuel K. Lothrop, of Boston ; Rev. Charles Mason, son of 
Jeremiah Mason, and Rev. Thomas Worcester. 

Upon the left of the Chair, were Rev. Dr. Baron Stow, of 
Boston ; Hon. John P. Hale, Senator in Congress, from N. H. ; 
Hon. James Wilson, and Hon. Amos Tuck, Representatives from 



18 , ]S"EW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

New Hampshire ; Hon. William Plummer, Jr., son of the aged 
ex-Governor ; Hon. John Kelley, of Exeter, member of the Gov- 
ernor's Council; Hon. Phineas Handerson ; Wm. Dinsmore, Esq., 
son of the ex-Governor, and brother of the present Executive of 
New Hampshire ; ex-Governor Anthony Colby ; ex-Govcrnor Henry 
Hubbard ; Hon. Levi "Woodbury, Judge of U. S. Supreme Court, 
and Hon. John P. Bigelow, Mayor of Boston. 

There were also present, Judge Gilchrist, of the Superior Court, 
Hon. Edmund Parker, Hon. W. W. Stickney, Hon. B. W. Jenness, 
Rev. L. J. Livermore, and Col. E. F. Miller. 

At five o'clock, P. m., when the company were seated at the 
tables, Mr. Webster rose and said, " Gentlemen, the blessing of 
God upon our food and fellowship will now be invoked by the Rev. 
Dr. Peabody, of Boston." The grace was as follows : 

" Lord,, our God, and our father's God, we beseech Thee to 
look down on this scene of union and commemoration, and to hallow 
it. We would remember, W'ith thanksgiving before Thee, the homes 
of our birth. We w'ould invoke Thy paternal benediction on those 
who still abide in them, and on those who have left them. Regard, 
with favor, we beseech Thee, those who are here assembled. J\Iay 
common privileges draw us more closely together, and may they 
unite us in a feeling of gratitude to Thee, our Benefactor, our 
Father, our God ; we ask it through Jesus Christ, our Lord." 

About six o'clock, p. m., at the close of the repast, Rev. Dr. 
Stow returned thanks in the following language : 

" Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee that we 
were born in a Free State ; among Free Schools, Free Churches, 
and Free Consciences. We render Thee thanks for all the facili- 
ties that were furnished us in early life, for intellectual and moral 
culture. We now thank Thee that we are permitted, in this happy 
re-union, to recognize Thee as a source of all our blessings. Ac- 
cept our thanks for the pleasure of this hour, and the happiness of 
this scene. May Thy benediction abide upon the State of our 
birth, and the State of our adoption, and continue with us to the 
end of our course. We ask it for the sake of the Saviour. 
Amen." 



MR. Webster's speech. 19 

Mr. Webster then arose, amidst enthusiastic cheers and shouts 
of welcome, and addressed the vast assemblage as follows : 

HON. DANIEL WEBSTER'S SrEECH. 

Residents of Boston and its vicinity, native born of New Hamp- 
shire ; we meet here to-day in honor of our native State, to com- 
memorate and record our grateful affection for her ; to acknowledge 
the obligation that we all feel under for her care and nurture in our 
early days. Coming into this, another State, we have not brought 
with us all our affections, or all our attachments. 

We have invited to meet us many distinguished citizens of New 
Hampshire. They have answered our invitation, and have come in 
numbers. It may be considered properly the duty of the place I 
occupy to bid them, one and all, welcome. [Applause.] Welcome, 
ye of New Hampshire origin, from every part and quarter of our 
native State ! If you come from the pleasant valleys of the Con- 
necticut and Merrimac, welcome ! Are you from the sea-shore and 
the lakes of Strafford ? welcome ! Come ye from the Monadnock 
and the sides of the Crystal Hills ? welcome ! ivelcome ! welcome ! 
[Cheers.] 

It was not in my power. Gentlemen, to meet you in the Hall of 
the State House before dinner. But I meet you here, and in the 
name of us who have prepared this celebration, I greet our guests, 
and in my own name, I greet all. I think they say the Chinese 
have a heathenish custom, when they meet, for one to shake his own 
hands to his neighbor. That is not our custom. Let us be more 
classical ; Cur dextrce jungere dextra 7ion datur. 

Let us follow the English and the Saxon custom, and shake 
hands with our friends. I give my hands to the friends next me. 
Let us embrace, mo7'e majoi'um, and have a good hearty shaking 
of hands. [Great cheering, while :Mr. Webster shakes hands with 
those near, and his example is followed by the company.] 

Gentlemen, all the world admits that identity of local origin is a 
tie of connection and sympathy, especially if it be strengthened by 
early association, by the meeting with one another in the school- 
house, and in the early society of life. In the morning of life, the 
heart opens all its sympathies to those around it, and receives nn- 



20 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

pressions which are deep and lasting. We have migrated from 
one State to another. Our migration has not been far. Nor have 
we come among strangers ; nor have we had a new tongue to 
learn, new principles to imbibe, new affairs of life to pursue ; but, 
nevertheless, we have changed our allegiance ; we have changed 
our citizenship ; we have changed our social relations. New 
Hampshire men once in all these respects, we cease to be New 
Hampshire men now in every thing, but grateful remembrance and 
affections for the past. 

To-day we meet to resume, for the time, the feelings which belong 
to us, as citizens of New Hampshire ; to put on the New Hamp- 
shire character, and see how well it may fit us here, in the metrop- 
olis of the State, to which we have come. Gentlemen, our lot is 
propitious ; singularly, remarkably, propitious. We are the native 
sons of one State, we are the adopted children of another, and we 
are proud of both. [Warm applause.] Wo desire not to forget 
whence we came, and Heaven forbid that we should forget where 
we are. We have met, I say, to commemorate our native State. 
We value it according to its merits, which we believe high and hon- 
orable. AVe value it for what Nature has conferred upon it, and 
for what its hardy sons have done for themselves. We believe, 
and we know, that its scenery is beautiful ; that its skies are all 
healthful ; that its mountains and lakes are surpassingly grand and 
sublime. 

If there be any thing on this continent the work of Nature, in 
hills, and lakes, and seas, and woods, and forests, strongly attract- 
ing the admiration of all those who love natural scenery, that is to 
be found in our mountain State of New Hampshire. 

It happened to me latterly to visit the northern parts of the 
State. It was Autumn. The trees of the forests, by the discolor- 
ation of the leaves, had presented one of the most beautiful specta- 
cles that the human eye can rest upon. But the low and deep 
murmur of those forests ; the fogs, rising and spreading and clasp- 
ing the breasts of the mountains, whose heads were still high and 
bright in the skies, all these indicated that a w^intry storm was on 
the wing ; that the spirit of the mountains was stirred, and that ere 
long the voice of tempests would speak. But even this was exciting ; 
exciting to those of us who had been witnesses before of such stern 



MR. Webster's speech. 21 

forebodings, and exciting in itself as an exhibition of the grandeur 
of natural scenery. For my part, I felt the truth of that sentiment, 
applied elscAvhcre and on another occasion, that 

" The loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar, 
But bound me to my native mountains more." 

[Applause.] 
Ours is not one of the richest of the States. It does not compare 
Vfith Massachusetts in its facilities of mercantile or commercial oc- 
cupation and enterprise. Its soil is sterile and stubborn, but the 
resolution to subdue it is stubborn also. Unrelenting rocks have 
yielded, and do yield, to unrelenting labor ; and there are produc- 
tiveness, and health, and plenty, and comfort, over all her hills and 
among all her valleys. Manly strength, the nerved arm of free- 
men, each one tilling his OAvn land, and standing on his o\yn soil, 
enjoying what he earns, and ready to defend it ; these have made 
all comfortable and happy. 

Nor need we be ashamed of her literary, her religious, or her 
social institutions. I have seen, and others of my age have seen, 
the church and the school-house rise in the very centre of the forest, 
and stand and be visited in the midst of winter snows. And where 
these things lie at the foundation and commencement of society, 
where the worship of God, the observance of morals, and the cul- 
ture of the human mind, are springs of action with those who 
take hold of the original forest, to subdue it by strong arms and 
strong muscles, depend upon it, no such people ever fail. [Sen- 
sation.] 

Everywhere, everyivhere, on her hills and rivers, are the school- 
houses. The school-house ; who shall speak of that all over New 
England as it ought to be spoken of? Who shall speak, as they 
ought to be spoken of, of the wisdom, and foresight, and benevo- 
lence, and sagacity of our forefathers, for establishing, as a great 
public police for the benefit of the whole, as a business in Avhich 
all are interested, the great system of public instruction. The 
world had previously seen nothing like it. But the world, in some 
parts, has since copied from it. But where, when you talk of fos- 
tering Governments, of guardian Governments, of Governments 
which render to subjects that protection which the allegiance of 



22 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

subjects demands ; w]iere is it, I ask, that, as here with us, it has 
come to be a great and fundamental proposition, existing before 
constitutions, that it is the duty, tlie bounden duty, of Governments 
composed bj the representation of all, to lay the foundation of the 
happiness and respectability of society, in universal education ? If 
you can tell me such a country out of New England, I would be 
glad to hear of it. I know of none. I have read of none. [Ap- 
plause.] 

Gentlemen, the inhabitants of our New Hampshire mountains 
were, it must be confessed, from the first, rather inclined to the in- 
dulgence of a military spirit. I believe that that is common to 
mountainous regions in most parts of the world. Scotland and 
Switzerland show the example of hardy, strong men in mountahious 
regions, attached to war and to the chase ; and it is not unfortunate 
in our New Hampshire history, that this sentiment, to a considera- 
ble degree, prevailed. For the position of the country, and the 
state of the people called for its exercise. We know that New 
Hampshire was settled in all its frontier towns, under circumstances 
of the most dangerous and difficult nature and character. It was 
a border State. It bordered on the Indians and on the French ; 
names and nations always coupled together in the language of our 
fathers as common enemies to them. This exposed the frontier 
men, of New Hampshire, especially, to perpetual war ; to perpetual 
danger at least of war, and its frec^uent occurrence. The people 
forget ; they forget how recent it is, that the interior, the border 
country of New Hampshire, was settled and reclaimed, and made 
safe from Indian depredation. All the world reads that New 
England is the oldest part of the United States, or one of the old- 
est. It has been looked upon as the longest settled. But, in regard 
to the frontiers of our native State, the settlement has been recent. 
Even up to the time of the birth of some of us now living, there 
was some degree of danger from Indian depredations and Indian 
wars ; liability to Indian assaults, murders, and burnings. 

Whole generations, at least one entire generation, tilled the land 
and raised their bread with their arms in their hands, or in the 
fields with them at their labor. We do not noAV 'appreciate the diffi- 
culty of those frontier settlements ; because subsequent prosperity 
and security has obhterated the recollection. 



MR. AVEESTEPw'S SrEECII. 23 

The pioneers of more fortunate countries in our clav, ^vhat arc 
their dangers compared Avith those of our fatlicrs ? They go to a 
mikl chmate. They go to a fertile land ; and they have behind 
them a powerful Government, capable of defending them against 
the foe, of protecting their interests, and of redressing the wrongs 
they may suifer. It was not so with our fathers in New Hamp- 
shire. There, on the border were the Indians, and behind the 
Indians were the hostile French. It was in this situation of border 
danger and border warfare, and border strife and border suffering, 
that our ancestors laid the foundation of the State from which we 
came. 

In the language of Fisher Ames, " It is not in Indian "Wars that 
heroes are celebrated ; but it is there they are formed. No enemy 
on earth is more formidable, in the skill of his ambushes, in the 
suddenness of his attack, or in the ferocity of his revenge." Not 
only was this foe to be encountered, but also a civilized State at 
enmity with us behind the Indians, supplying them with means, 
and always ready to purchase the victims that they could bring for 
sale to Canada ; this was the condition of things in which the fron- 
tiers were settled. Let it be added, that half the year was winter, 
and that on the surface of the snow, encrusted by frosts, bands of 
savages, coming from a distance of two hundred miles, suddenly 
appeared and set fire, at midnight, to the houses and villages of the 
settlers. 

It was in this discipline, it was in these Indian Wars, it was 
especially in the war of 1756, against the French, in which almost 
every man in New Hampshire, capable of bearing arms, bore arms; 
it was here that the military spirit of the country, the bravery, the 
gallantry of these mountain inhabitants were all called forth. They 
were a people given to the chase and to the hunt in time of peace ; 
fitted for endurance and danger, and when war came, they were 
ready to meet it. It was in the midst of these vicissitudes that 
they Avere formed to hardihood and enterprise, and trained to mili- 
tary skill and fearlessness. 

As one example out of many, I might refer to Gen. John Stark, 
well known for his military achievements in all the wars of his 
time. A hunter in peace, a soldier in war ; and as a soldier, always 
among the foremost and the bravest. [Applause.] And since he 



24 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

is brought to my remembrance, let me indulge in the recollection of 
him for a moment. 

Gen. Stark was my neighbor ; the neighbor and friend of my 
father. One in a highly important, the other in a less distinguished 
situation, had seen military service together, and had met the enemy 
in the same field. It Avas in the decline of Stark's life, compara- 
tively speaking, when the Revolutionary War broke out. He en- 
tered into it, however, with all the manliness and all the fervor of his 
youthful character. Yet, in his advanced age, like other old men, 
he turned back fondly to earlier scenes ; and when he spoke of the 
"war," he always meant the old French and Indian war. His re- 
membrances were of Canada ; of the exploits at Crown Point, and 
Ticonderoga, and Lake George. He seemed to think of the Revo- 
lution as only a family quarrel, in which, nevertheless, he took 
a warm and decided part; but he preferred to talk of the "war" 
in which he was taken by the Indians, as he was more than once, I 
think, and carried to Canada. The last time I saw him, he was 
seated around a social fire with his neighbors. As I entered, he 
greeted me, as he always did, with affection ; and I believe ho 
complimented me on my complexion, which he said was like my 
father's ; and his was such, he said, that he never knew whether he 
was covered with powder or not. [Laughter.] The conversation 
turned, like other conversations among country neighbors, upon 
this man's condition and that man's condition ; the property of one, 
and the property of another, and how much each was worth. At 
last, rousing himself from an apparent slumber, he said, " Well, I 
never knew but once what I Avas worth. In the war, the Indians 
took me, and carried me to Canada, and sold me to the French for 
forty pounds ; and, as they say a thing is worth what it will fetch, 
I suppose I was worth forty pounds." [Laughter.] 

These are the scenes, ye native born ; this is the history, ye sons 
of New Hampshire, of the times and the events, which brought 
forth the gallant spirits of our native State into the midst of a still 
more important and more serious conflict, which began here in 
1776. New Hampshire was then full of soldiers ; indeed, I may 
say that the whole of New England was full of soldiers, when 
the Revolutionary War broke out. New Hampshire, especially, 
had hardly any body in it that had not used the custom of bearing 



MR. WEI!STEll'S SPEECH. 25 

arms in the previous war. As proof of the soklier-like character 
of our New England yeomanry, I may mention a fact which should 
not be forgotten ; that, of all the soldiers, regular and militia, 
which served in the war of Independence, Massachusetts and New 
Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island ; these four little States, 
which, as you look upon a map of the United States, you can cover 
with your hand ; these States furnished more than one half of all 
the men that achieved our Independence. [Cheers.] 

It appears from official and statistical record, that, during the 
war, in the regular service and in the militia service, three hun- 
dred and seventeen, or three hundred and twenty thousand men 
were employed in our armies. I say that, of these, New England 
alone furnished more than half. 

I may refer to a period further back. I may revert to the time 
that Louisburg was taken from the French, in 1745. How many 
men do you think the States of New England maintained ? 
I beheve. Gentlemen, they maintained, for one or two years at 
least, upon the pay of the Colonies, more men against the French, 
than were enlisted, at any one time, in ovir late war with England. 
And that induced old Lord Chatham to say in his place in the 
House of Lords, " I remember, my Lords, when New England 
raised four regiments on her own bottom, and took Louisburg from 
the veteran troops of France." 

Then came the war of the Revolution ; it broke out here in the 
State of Massachusetts. Where was New Hampshire then ? Was 
she alienated from the cause, or from her sister State ? No. 
Neither then, nor at any time in the succeeding contest, was her soil 
subject to the tread of a hostile foot. Whether they thought it not 
AYorth entering, or whether they did not choose to encounter the dwell- 
ers in her mountains, I do not care to decide. The truth is, no enemy 
trod on the soil of New Hampshire. But when the strife began, 
when the beacon fires were lighted here, when the march from 
Boston to Lexington, and Concord, had spread the flames of Liberty, 
who answered to the call ? Did New Hampshire need to be sum- 
moned to Bunker Hill ? She came at the first blaze of the beacon 
fires. None Avere earlier, none more ready, none more valiant. 

I think it is Madame de Stael who says, that " from the mountains 
of the North there comes nothing but fire and the sword." And 
on this occasion, there did indeed come from our native mountains 



2d NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

both fire and the sword ; not the fire of devastation and desolation, 
not the sword of ruthless plunder and massacre ; but the fire of 
Liberty and the sword of Patriotism. [Overpowering applause.] 
And how ardently the one burned, and how vigorously the other 
was plied till the return of peace enabled the country to sheath it, 
and be at rest, let the whole history of that country tell. [Cheers 
redoubled.] 

Gentlemen, from Bunker Hill to Yorktown, there was not a battle 
in which New Hampshire blood was not shed. I may go further 
yet ; and I may say that there is, probably, of the many hundreds 
now in this very Hall, a representative of some New Hampshire 
officer or soldier who fell in every field, and left his bones where he 
fought his battle. The blood, the blood of New Hampshire men, 
falling everywhere, and in every year of the war, in defence of the 
liberty of the country, is here to-night. I hope it is Avorthy of its 
descent, and that it will transmit itself undefiled to ages, and ages 
yet to come. [Applause.] 

Those who returned to New Hampshire from that seven years' 
contest, have their graves on her mountain sides, and along the 
valleys of their native land ; and those graves are ever objects of 
public regard, and private affection : 

" How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, 
By all their Country's wishes blest ! " 

" And Freedom shall awhile repair, 
And dwell, a weeping hermit, there." 

They are ever pointed out to the passing traveller as the last rest- 
ing place of the patriotic and the brave ; and they continue to be 
watered with the tears of a grateful posterity. But, alas ! all did 
not return. McCleary, the earliest, or one of the earliest of the 
New Hampshire victims of the Revolutionary struggle, fell in 
Charlestown. His blood is mixed with the earth, upon which yon- 
der monument stands, raising its head to the skies, and challenging, 
from the world, respect and admiration for the spot where a mili- 
tary achievement was performed, which, in its results, in the long 
career of its consequences, in the great course of events which 
followed it, and their effects upon human happiness, or human Hberty, 
has no parallel in the history of mankind. 



MR. Webster's speech. 27 

Adams and Coleman fell at Saratoga, and the soil of New York 
contains their ashes. Col. Scammel, a scholar, a gentleman of 
high attainment and accomplishment, a soldier of undaunted \alor, 
went through the whole career of the Avar, and lost his life at its 
close, when making a rcconnoismnce, as Adjutant General, before 
the redoubts at Yorktown, There he fell. lie lies buried in the 
grave-yard at WilHamsburg. An affectionate friend and comrade, 
Gen. Henry Dearborn, took pains to search out the spot where his 
remains were buried. He could find no more, than that they lay 
somewhere in that consecrated burial-ground. A braver, or a bet- 
ter man, did not belong to the army. I never read his history 
without being much aifected. He left no descendants. He was 
never married. His career was short and brilliant, like that of the 
star that shoots across the horizon, and goes out to be seen no 
more. Plis friends came home from the army, full of attachment 
and love for his name and fame. Gen. John Brooks, formerly Gov- 
ernor of this State, beloved by every body and distinguished for 
every virtue, named a son for him, Alexander Scammel Bi'ooks. 
This son was brought up to the army like his predecessor and name- 
sake, and lost his life in the Florida war. Gen. Dearborn, another 
friend, also named a son for him, Gen. Henry Alexander Scammel 
Dearborn, whom we have the pleasure of seeing here to-night. 
Col. Wadsworth also gave his name to a son who entered the Navy, 
and is now Commodore Alexander Scammel Wadsworth. 

The three namesakes, all about the same age, and early acquain- 
tances and friends, lived, until death, in the time of the Florida War, 
broke up the trio and reduced the number to Gen. Dearborn and 
Commodore Wadsworth. I wish, as a spontaneous tribute of the pres- 
ent generation, somewhere within the sacred grounds of the church- 
yard at Williamsburg, at the expense of us, Sons of New Hamp- 
shire, a monument should be raised to the memory of that distin- 
guished soldier. 

Gentlemen, I have no right to occupy much of your time. My 
voice is a little too familiar to you all. There are others to whom 
you will listen with more gratification. I will only refer, in a very few 
words, to the civil history of this, our native State, in the past and 
important era of our history ; and in doing that, I will mention only 
the great men who signed the Declaration of Independence, and 



28 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

tliose who put their names to the Constitution of the United States. 
The Declaration of Independence, on the part of New Hampshire, 
was signed, in the first place, by Josiah Bartlett, HeAvas an unos- 
tentatious man, but able, sensible, and patriotic. He left numerous 
descendants, and there are here those who belong to his family 
and kindred. 

Gen. William Whipple was another who signed the Declaration. 
He left no descendants ; nothing but his character, his name, and 
his fame. 

Dr. Matthew Thornton was a third. And his descendants are 
in New Hampshire, in Boston, and elsewhere in the country ; some 
of them now in this Hall. Dr. Thornton was one of the most ar- 
dent sons of liberty, but was, as it happened, not at Philadelphia 
on the 4th of July, 1776, when the vote was passed. He hurried 
immediately to Philadelphia. You know that the official resolutions 
of Independence were only to be signed by the President. But a 
Declaration, for individual signatures, was drawn up. The first 
of the members who signed, after the President, was Josiah Bart- 
lett, of New Hampshire ; the next, was William Whipple, of New 
Hampshire. jNIatthew Thornton did not sign immediately, because 
he was not there. Others went on to sign ; and the Massachusetts 
members, you remember, signed next to the two members from New 
Hampshire. Thornton hastened back to his post to sign with the 
rest, and the nearest place to his colleagues he could find, was at 
the bottom of the right-hand column; and there it stands, "Matthew 
Thornton." [Applause.] 

Well, Gentlemen, we now come to the Constitution of the United 
States. John Langdon and Nicholas Gilman represented New 
Plampshire in the Convention of 1789. Mr. Langdon has left de- 
scendants behind him, honorable and worthy. An excellent woman, 
a daughter, still lives, esteemed and regarded by all who know 
her. 

Nicholas Gilman, of a family always an honor to his native State, 
and some of whom I dare say are here to-night, left no children. 

At this period of time, without disturbing individual opinion or 
party feelings, I may speak of some of the early members of Con- 
gress. When the Constitution first went into operation, the men of 
New Hampshire assisted in forming the original organic laws. 



MR. WEBSTER'S SPEECH. 29 

were confided in by the first President of the United States, and 
did all that they could do to put the machine in operation. At the 
head of this list was Samuel Livermore, the father of several c;cn- 
tlemen of respectability in public life, in the State, and in the Na- 
tional Councils. Jeremiah Smith and William Gordon, also, both 
men of talent and industry, and warm friends of the first President, 
held seats in Congress with high reputation. 

This, Gentlemen, was the history, the early history of our State, 
as one of the Union, so far as we may summarily comment upon it 
here to-night. 

In regard to the military character of the Revolutionary heroes, 
and the early statesmen, and in regard to everything which was 
done, or ought to be done, or was expected to be done, to bring New 
Hampshire honorably and respectably into the great circle of our 
Union, Gentlemen, I leave all this for abler tongues, fresher recol- 
lections, and more persuasive accents. I sit down myself, filled 
with profound veneration for the character of my native State, and 
acknowledging to her my own personal debt, for her culture and 
nurture, and determined, so far as in me hes, to transmit the sense 
of that obhgation to those who shall come after me. 

As soon as the applause following ]Mr. Webster's speech had sub- 
sided, he rose and said, " The proper Committee has placed sundry 
Toasts in my hands, which I shall have the pleasure to announce to 
the meeting. And they have signified their wishes as to the per- 
sons who are to answer to them. And I now have the honor to 
propose the first regular toast : " 

1. Npao Hampshire ! Our common motlior ! Home of our briglitost, liai)piost 
hours ! Thy hills and valleys, thy woods and streams, and all thy pleasant 
memories are ever with us, 

"Where'er wc roam, whatever realms we see, 
Om" hearts, untravellcd, fondly turn to thee." 

" The Hon. Levi Woodbury, Judge of the Supreme Eench of 
the Court of the United States, will respond to this sentiment." 



30: NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 



SPEECH OF JUDGE WOODBUEY. 

I cannot, Sir, but feel honored, though somewhat surprised, that 
an answer is expected from me, to the last toast. It is certain, 
however, that the call of this " Festival of the Sons of New Hamp- 
shire," has touched a chord which vibrates in the hearts of all, eith- 
er at home or abroad. 

But I came here merely to acknowledge your generous hospital- 
ity ; yet, acting as now requested, I take the liberty to thank you, 
most heartily, for your warm remembrance of your native soil, and 
I think I may safely venture to assure you, that the name and asso- 
ciations of the Granite State, are in no portion of our hallowed 
Union dearer, than among her quiet hills and valleys. It is grati- 
fying to see men occasionally call to mind the purity and simplicity 
of the scenes of early life, and it is creditable to them to turn aside, 
for at least a few hours, from the anxieties and haunts of business, 
the mere Mammon of the w^orld, and think over, and talk over, the 
farm-house and fields of childhood, their beloved Argos, the village 
school and village church, the plough and scythe, of growing youth 
or manhood, and the mother, sister, and brother, who cheered you 
at dewy eve on your return from daily toil. This is purifying. 
"Well, too, may some of you remember the gun and fishing rod, 
which, while furnishing healthy amusement, prepared some of you, 
by the mimic war of the chase, to help to conquer so nobly at Palo 
Alto, and under the walls of Mexico. 

It is not a matter of surprise to me, to see here to-night so many 
emigrants from our native State, considering the departures, year- 
ly, from her as swarms from an overstocked hive, and considering 
the enterprise fostered where it is necessary to obtain a livelihood 
if the soil is not the richest, and the territory small, and consid- 
ering the good education bestowed there in the free Schools, Acad- 
emies, and Colleges, and the hardihood acquired by a training in 
infancy among the Alps of the Switzerland of America, nor, con- 
sidering all these, is it a matter of surprise to see so many of you 
scattered so widely, and with such cheering success, both elsewhere 
and here, having been able to furnish thus some Senators in Con- 
gress, Representatives, Governors, and Judges, as well as Profes- 
sional men, Mechanics, and Farmers, not only for every section of 




ffiHTir ViT(Q)®m)]ETLri^^o 



sional men, Mechanics, and Farmers, not only for every section of 




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ffilETIC Tff®®D]i3Iff]Ill^ 



JUDGE Woodbury's speech. 31 

tlic Union, but Cotton Manufacturers for the water-falls of Mexico, 
Merchants for the Exchange of London and Paris, and Admirals, 
even, for the Navy of Russia. If not particularly fruitful in crops, 
beside her granite and ice, your native State is generally conceded 
to have been fruitful in men, and her exports of them are seldom 
more highly appreciated than they deserve, as may be seen by the 
specimens here this day, residing among you. When asked for her 
■wealth, and especially her jewels, she points, like the Roman Ma- 
tron, to her sons. She sends her daughters, likewise, to all quar- 
ters of the country, which allusion will not, I hope, be deemed amiss, 
though in a " Festival of her Sons." [Applause.] 

They are in such demand for domestic industry and virtue, as 
guardians of the spindle in numerous factories ; as teachers of the 
young in many Seminaries of learning ; as wives and mothers in 
every sphere of life, that most of us, and at least those who, like 
myself, have some interest in the question, may be excused for feel- 
ing some pride in their modest worth. 

There is one deserving trait in these emigrants not to be forgot- 
ten by those at home, and of which this Festival is a strong proof. 
They are not ashamed of the State Avhich gave them birth. In- 
deed, though rocky as Ithaca, 

" Lives there a man vdth soul so dead, 
"Who never to himself has said, 
This is my own, my native land." 

AVithln the space of a few months, I once visited every State in 
the Union but two or three, finding " Sons of New Hampshire" in 
all, and thanks to Providence, among all the host, very few were re- 
luctant to acknowledge their origin, to hail from New Hampshire, 
or forgetful of the many excellencies in some respects of their fath- 
erland. 

The same hardy industry which animated their ancestors to fell 
our forest, continued to distinguish most of them, the same indepen- 
dence of thought and action which led them to set up for themselves, 
near a century before the Revolution, and, as a quaint writer re- 
marked, " to trot no longer after the Bay horse," the same indomitable 
courage which manned their nerves to face unappallcd the fierce 
Mohawk, the same patriotism which led them to fight for the moth- 
er country and themselves at Louisburg, under Vaughan and Pep- 



32 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

perel, (both from Portsmouth, and the bones of the latter still sleep 
near the mouth of her harbor,) and at Quebec under Rogers 
and Wolf, the same love of liberty for which they bled on almost 
every battle-field of the Revolution, as at Bunker Hill under McCla- 
ry, at Rhode Island under Sullivan, at Bennington under Stark, 
at Saratoga under Dearborn, at Yorktown under Scammel, and on 
the decks of the Ranger and Bonne Homme Richard under Hall 
and Paul Jones, the same as since, in other -wars, under the gallant 
Miller and McNeil at Lundy's Lane, the same devotion to popular 
education, to civil freedom, equal laws, and all the great rights of 
conscience that distinguished then her statesmen and jurists, her 
Meshech "Weares, her Langdons and Livermores, and that in every 
cloudy sky during the last half century have marked the career of 
her people, and made them faithful to the true principles of the 
Constitution. 

In exerting your energies for the benefit of a sister State, it would 
be unjust to regard you as abandoning or deserting the habits and 
principles, or the welfare of your Alma Mater ; but, rather, w^e 
consider you as seeking fame and fortune in the spirit of liberty 
and independence, as gathering wealth, intelligence, useful arts, and 
glory in this great nursery of all of them, and to bless your parent 
soil as well as any other place you may select for future residence, 

" The world," — before you, where to choose, 
and Providence your guide," 

and also as repaying for a time to this sister State for emigrations 
thence to New Hampshire, like my own ancestors and those of 
many around me near a century ago. [Applause.] 

Go on, then, and prosper in all this as you doubtless will, if con- 
tinuing true to the principles and examples which for many genera- 
tions have been beacon fights on your native hills, and which speak 
to us all, trumpet-tongued, every time we visit the graves of our 
fathers among those rugged cliffs. 

Teach them, I pray you, to your children and children's children, 
who, in confiding love, climb your knees and watch with devoted 
faith every accent of your lips. [Cheers.] 

Teach them, as our Pilgrim fathers said of the Bible, till you can 
find something clearly better. Then, whether in religion, politics, 
literature, the arts, or social life, like true reformers and patriots, do 



MR. wilder' S SPEECU. 33 

not, in this free country, persist in any manifest error, but I had al- 
most said, in the name of heaven, join the armies of improvement 
and progress, and a higher civiUzation, and let onward be your 
watchword, and your march. 

Mr. "Webster gave as the second regular toast : — 

2. The Commoracealth of Massachusetts ! — We render to her, as our foster 
parent, the gratitude of our hearts for her hospitality and encouragement. To 
her Institutions and Laws, we promise as warm and cordial support as she has 
a right to expect from the most devoted of her own native citizens. 

The President called upon Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, of the 
Executive Council, who replied as follows : — 

3Ir. President and G-entlemen — 

In consequence of the official relations which exist between the 
Governor of the Commonwealth and myself, I understand that I am 
expected to reply to the sentiment which has just been announced. 
"Would, Sir, that his Excellency had been a son of New Hampshire, 
that he might have been present, and have responded for the Old 
Bay State with that propriety and force which always characterize 
him on public occasions. [Cheers.] 

I observe near me a distinguished gentleman, the President of 
the Senate, who might as appropriately speak for Massachusetts as 
myself, and whose voice we always delight to hear, for he belongs 
to that class of Bells whose intonations, whether vibrating among 
hig native hills or in the Capitol of this Commonwealth, never give 
an uncertain sound. [Repeated cheers.] 

I am happy, Mr. President, to acknowledge the compliment paid 
to the State of our adoption, and respond the more readily to the 
call, because I have here passed half of ray life, and also because 
I was born but just over the line which divides Massachusetts and 
New Hampshire. Much as I love the latter, and the place where 
my eyes first saw the light of heaven — much as I believe in 
early education, and that, "just as the twig is bent, the tree's 
inclined," yet I cannot tell to which I am more indebted, whether 
to the one that rocked my cradle, or to the other which has blessed 
and prospered my manhood. Standing here, the son of New Hamp- 
shire, I think, in passing, I ought to drop a word of filial regard for 
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34 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

her, but if she needs any commendation, what can he said more in 
her praise, than to call her the mother of such a large family of 
intelligent sons as I see around me. It is said, Mr. President, that 
her soil is rough and rocky, that her climate is cold and uncon- 
genial, and that her productions are granite and ice. In part, the 
truth of these remarks is admitted, but there is one product, of which 
she has raised a large crop, in common with old Massachusetts, 
a crop which has found a ready market abroad ; and, if she may be 
judged by the representation she sends, in our guests, on this occa- 
sion, her store is not yet exhausted. 

She has raised men, great men, and had she performed no other 
service, this alone were sufficient to associate her name with Sparta 
and Athens, in the history of mankind. Her Stark, to whom you 
have so happily alluded, Mr. President, was a modern Leonidas, 
and, among her orators, no one would hesitate to point out a De- 
mosthenes. [Enthusiastic applause.] 

As for Massachusetts, she needs no praise from me. She is 
everywhere exalted to the summit of human excellence. Her deeds 
of Revolutionary valor Avill be rehearsed while the names of Boston, 
Bunker Hill, and Lexington, shall have a place in history. Her 
citizens, her schools and colleges, her internal improvements, and 
all her institutions, speak for themselves. If any inquire after her 
welfare, her sons with proud exultation may point to her, and in 
your own expressive language, Mr. President, if you will allow me 
to repeat it, may say, — *' Tliere she is, behold her !^^ 

It would be interesting to notice the wonderful progress of the 
Old Bay State, from the time when New Hampshire stood side 
by side, and shoulder to shoulder with her in the struggle for Inde- 
pendence ; but, as there are many gentlemen present who are ex- 
pected to address the meeting, I will not trespass upon their time. 
In return for the compliment paid to Massachusetts, permit me, Mr. 
President, to offer the following toast: — 

y 

The Granite Slate ! — 

" Men are the growth her frozen realms supply, 
And souls are ripened 'neath her northern sky." 

[Mr. Wilder's remarks were received with repeated outbursts of 
applause all over the Hall.] 



MR. BIGELOW'S SPEECH. 35 

The Chair announced the third regular toast : — 

3. Bos/on and its Inhahitants ! — Always enllglitcned and libci'al, jealous of 
no competition, ouvious of no success of others ; always ready to receive with 
open arni!^, to the brotherhood of fellow citizens, the industrious, the worthy, 
and the distinguished. 

SPEECH OF THE HON. JOHN PRESCOTT BIGELOW, 

MAYOR OP BOSTON. 

Jir. Chairman — 

I have not words adequately to express my feelings in respond- 
ing to the tribute, -vvhich the sons of New Hampshire have seen 
fit, in accepting that sentiment, to pay to the city of their adoption. 
Sir, if that city be goodly, if that city lift up its head in hon- 
orable rivalry with the great marts of the globe ; if it be, in a 
peculiar degree, the abode of the arts, or sciences, and of good 
principles ; if. Sir, it exercises a wholesome influence upon public 
opinion throughout this laud, there are none, none more entitled to 
boast of these things, than the goodly company upon which I now 
look around. [" Hear," " hear."] For none. Sir, none have done 
more to promote the prosperity of the city of the Pilgrims, or to 
sustain and advance the institutions of her founders, than the sons 
of New Hampshire. [Cheers.] 

Boston, Sir, acknowledges the debt, [applause,] and bids me 
salute you and your brethren, with grateful thanks, for the alle- 
giance you have borne her government, for the truth and fidelity 
Avith which you have contributed to uphold her ancient character. 
[Applause.] 

Mr. Chairman, much as I expected of the demonstration this 
night, in reference to numbers and imposing effect, I confess that 
I am astonished at the scene which I see around me. Sir, I am 
surprised to find so many citizens, whom I well know in every Ward 
of the city, good men and true as they are, so many of those who 
are valued, and loved, and honored among us, that so many should 
claim New Hampshire as their birth-place. Sir, the invitation that 
went forth has been answered by individuals of every class and pro- 
fession ; and it would seem to mo as if it partook somewhat of the 
magic influence of the bugle of Roderick, when it was heard in the 
fflen: 



36 NEAV HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

" Instant, through copse and heath, arose 
Bonnets and spears and bended bows ; 

***** 
And every tnft of broom gives life 
To jjlaided warrior arm'd for strife." 

[Cheers.] 
And I feel as much amazed as the Knight of Snowdon, when gazing 
on " Ben Ledi's living side," while I survey this greater multitude, 
so suddenly assembled, in obedience to a more welcome than the 
Highland summons. [Cheers.] 

Mr. Chairman, your native State has peculiar claims upon the 
vivid remembrance of her sons. Her scenery justly entitles her to 
be called in that respect, the Scotland of America. The lake 
and the meadow, the glen and the forest, are there ; there too, are 
those colossal pyramids of nature, seemingly the dwelling-place of 
the Titans, fit nursery of that gigantic intellect, which is the 
pride of our own country, and the admiration of the world. [This 
noble tribute to the President of the day, was responded to with 
hearty cheers.] 

Sir, from your native hills a living stream is ever sweeping over 
this land, and, I may say, the world, like the mystic Nile, enriching 
every spot where it flows. The sons of New Hampshire, may say 
with ^neas, 

" Quis jam loons, * * * 
Quai regio iu terris nostri non plena lahoris ? " 

What region of the globe does not bear witness to the energy and 
enterprise of our people ? [Applause.] 

Sir, the stern " Old 3Tan of the dlountain''^ looks forth from his 
rocky watch-tower upon this living stream as it flows forth at his 
feet, and I cannot but fancy, that even Jus stony heart must be 
touched with pride and satisfaction, as he sees from afar the wor- 
thy, the honorable, the noble career, of his children. [Repeated 
cheers.] 

Mr. Chairman, I feel that I can appreciate the sentiments which 
animate this meeting ; and am forcibly reminded of a scene which I 
have witnessed in your native State. 

The weary traveller as he climbs the rough pathway which leads 
to the summit of Mount Washington, and treads amidst the drearier 
scenes of nature, apparently beyond the region of vegetation, comes 



MR. EIGELOW'S SPEECH. 37 

unexpectedly to a charming lake, ■with verdant shores, denominated 
" The Lake of the Clouds." Gladdened by the sight, he seeks its 
mossy sides, and there pauses to rest and recover strength before he 
resumes the steep and rugged ascent. Perhaps, this is not an ina'it 
similitude of this gathering. From the toils and cares, from the hard 
journeyings and stern realities of life, the sons of New Hampshire, 
gather to this jubilee, for refreshment and joy. [Applause.] Here, 
for a while, you may repose, forgetful of the trials and troubles of 
the way, and devote a few hours to the interchange of fraternal 
greeting, to the recalling of pleasant memories and fond associations. 
On the morrow, you take up again the pilgrim's staff, and, with re- 
newed willingness and energy, press forward upon the remaining 
pathway of life. [Cheers.] 

But I do not forget that this is a family gathering, and that it is 
not for the stranger, even in returning thanks for the civility ten- 
dered to himself, to detain you from more appropriate sources of in- 
struction. 

Sir, I have a word more to say, and I shall have done. That 
splendid sheet of water, which, like a brilliant diamond, sparkles in 
the bosom of your native State, was called by the aboriginal inhabi- 
tants, as translated, " The Smile of the Great Spirit," and upon 
this beautiful fancy, I ask leave to found a sentiment which I 
would submit for the acceptance of the meeting : — 

Tlie Lake Winnipisseogee. — May tlie " Smile of tlie Great Spirit," Avliich, to 
the eye of the poor Indian, beamed upon its waters, be ever reflected by the 
prosperity and happiness of the sons of New Hampshire. 

[Prolonged cheering.] 

The Chair remarked that " the Committee on Invitations" address- 
ed sundry letters to distinguished citizens of New Hampshire, in- 
viting them to be present on this occasion. Many of them found it 
convenient, much to our gratification, to accept those invitations ; 
others, through age and infirmity, or other causes, declined such 
acceptances, and have written to the Committee their respective 
answers. 

I have thought it proper, or that it might be agreeable, that, 
in the intervals between the regular toasts, of which there are not 



60 ' NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

a great number, I should advert to some of these letters, referring 
generally to their contents, and mentioning the persons from whom 
they came. After that, they -will be handed over to those whose 
duty it is to publish the proceedings. 

The first letter is from ex-Governor Plummer, of New Hamp- 
shire. [See Appendix, for the complete letters.] He is a man of 
learning and of talent. He has performed important service in the 
Congress of the United States. He has been many years Governor 
of the State of New Hampshire. He has lived a life of study and 
attainment, and, I suppose is, among the men now living, one of the 
best informed in the matters pertaining to the history of his country. 
He is now more than ninety years of age. He expresses the pleasure 
he should feel to be here, if his advanced life would permit. 

Gentlemen, he is, according to my recollection, the oldest mem- 
ber of Congress now living. Mr. Gallatin, lately deceased, was his 
predecessor for some years in the House of Representatives. Mr. 
Ross, some four or five years ago deceased, was his predecessor also. 
They are gone, and therefore I now propose the health of Governor 
Plummer of New Hampshire, the oldest living member of the Con- 
gress of the United States. [Great applause.] 

The Chair gave the fourth regular sentiment : — 

4. The Government of our Native State ! — Free in its principles, sound in 
its constitutional provisions, and blessed with a judiciary respectable for talent, 
learning, and integrity. 

SPEECH OF THE HON. JOEL PARKER, 

EOTALL PROFESSOR OF LAAV IX HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 

You call upon me, Mr. President, to answer for the Government 
and Judiciary of New Hampshire, but a summons to talk upon a 
festive occasion is a form of summons to which I am somewhat un- 
used, and the question is, how I am to make my answer. I am 
not, and, as you are aware, never have been one of the numerous 
Governoi-s of that State, and as I no longer have a seat upon the 
Bench there, you do not expect that I should assume the office of 
rendering acknowledgments, for the kind and courteous manner in 
which her Government and Judiciary have a present remembrance. 

I might, therefore, be at a loss to determine in what particular 



MR. Parker's speech. 39 

character I oaglit to respond to the summons, were it not tliat tlic 
usages of this country do not, hke those of England, invest him 
Avho descends from the Bench, with such a weight of judicial dig- 
nity, that he cannot return to his earlier avocations. [Cheers.] 

I may then, Sir, resume my former pursuits, and consider your 
call as a retainer to answer for the Government and for the Judi- 
ciary of my native State, in relation to such matters as I find ob- 
jected against them. [" Hear," " hear."] 

On looking over the docket, however, I do not perceive any 
cause, in which her Judiciary is at this time particularly re(|uircd to 
make its defence. [Laughter and applause.] 

Since the time when an attempt was made to " teach the Supe- 
rior Court of New Hampshire what the United States is," the Judi- 
ciary of that State has been permitted to execute its own judgment 
and decrees, according to its own pleasure. [Cheers.] 

But, Sir, I find upon the file, a declaration, drawn up some years 
since, containing divers allegations, in which the State and its 
Judiciary, in common with all its citizens, have a deep interest ; 
and, as I am not aware that the case has ever been brought to a 
formal trial, I propose to call it up for a hearing on the present 
occasion. [Cheers.] 

The principal averment in that declaration is, that New Hamp- 
shii-e is a benighted State ; [laughter ;] accompanying that aver- 
ment, there were divers other epithets, which, hke other matter, 
sometimes incorporated into declarations, may be regarded as sur- 
plusage. 

I am aAvare, Sir, that this declaration, when originally made, was 
connected with the results of party politics ; and with party politics, 
upon the present occasion, we have nothing to do. [Applause.] 
But it has been iterated and reiterated, upon like occasions, and 
upon some others, until there may be danger, if it continues to pass 
unchallenged, that those wdio make it may begin to entertain a sup- 
position that there is something in it. 

Sir, I meet that allegation with a general denial, and a particular 
denial ; with a formal traverse, and a special traverse ; and I waive 
all right to require proof in support of it, assuming the burden of 
proving the negative, by showing that New Hampshire has not 
been, is not, and never will be, a benighted State. 



40 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

You will not expect me to offer all the proof which my case fur- 
nishes, because you will tell me that it is a waste of time to put in 
a great mass of cumulative evidence ; and, besides, the jury will 
not wish to sit here until next November, to listen to the detail. 
[Repeated cheers.] I will, therefore, only crave your patience 
while I select from my brief. 

New Hampshire was among the foremost in asserting the rights 
of the Colonies, and has been a staunch supporter of a united Na- 
tional Government. 

The first witness I call is one you have yourself summoned. I 
allude to that column of granite, which, on yonder height, rises " to 
meet the sun in his coming," It stands as an enduring monument 
of the patriotism and valor of Massachusetts. But it stands not for 
her alone. She looked to New Hampshire, in the days of the 
event which it commemorates, to sustain her in her opposition to 
the arbitrary measures of the Crown, and she looked not in vain. 
INIassachusetts held the summit, but upon the declivity of that hal- 
lowed hill, m near proximity, stood New Hampshire ; and if her 
aid was not perfectly effectual, it was not inefiicient in that memo- 
rable conflict. 

When the contest had continued until the idea of Independence 
began to be entertained, New Hampshire, in January, 1776, 
adopted a Provisional Constitution, said to be the first formed by 
any of the Colonies, against which a protest was made by a few 
persons, because it appeared too much like setting up an indepen- 
dency of the mother country. And, in June following, her Assem- 
bly, organized under that Constitution, passed a resolution instruct- 
ing their delegates in the Continental Congress " to join with the 
other colonies in declaring the thirteen United Colonies a Free and 
Independent State, ''^ with a proviso, that her own internal police 
should be under the direction of her own Assembly. 

To the memorable Declaration which soon followed, tAvo of her 
delegates in Congress, (you have already referred to the fact,) 
had the honor of afiixing their names next after that of John Han- 
cock, the President, [enthusiasm,] and as soon as intelligence of 
that Declaration reached the new State, (it took the telegraph of 
that period, several days to transmit it,) independence was pro- 
claimed, by beat of drums, in her principal towns. 



MR. PARKER'S SPEECH. 41 

When, subsequently, it was found that the confederation of the 
States did not provide sufScientlj for the Avelfare of the whole 
people, and it became necessary " to consolidate our Union," by 
the adoption of a Federal Constitution again, Massachusetts, as the 
correspondence of that period will show, looked anxiously to New 
Hampshire ; and again she was not disappointed. It fell to the lot 
of New Hampshire, to give the vote which secured to us the ines- 
timable benefits of a National Government. The ratification of 
nine States was required, and New Hampshire was the ninth State 
which voted upon the subject. There were many who had misgiv- 
ings, and were desirous of incorporating into the Constitution cer- 
tain provisions, most of which have since been added, by way of 
amendment ; and there were some there, who were of opinion that 
it ought not to be ratified without such amendments. But New 
Hampshire considered the exigency, and her vote was decisive of 
its adoption. [Cheers.] The evidence of most of these facts 
may be found on the pages of her history. 

Did I hear some one say, that to the Constitution wliich her 
prudence thus secured, she has since given a Defender? [This 
happy allusion to the Chairman, produced the most vociferous 
cheering.] 

New Hampshire has been a devoted adherent to the cause of pop- 
ular education. 

You, and I, Mr. President, and many others here present, have 
known, aye, well known, those who, in her early days, with stout 
hearts, and strong arms, laid low her forests, cultivated the rocky 
soil between the stumps of the trees, rising early, and working late, 
that they might educate their children; that they might " send their 
sons to college." The forest has nearly disappeared, but the ener- 
gy and the spirit still remain and will continue, and by their fruits 
ye shall know them. 

If you examine the statutes of the State, you will find that, for 
a long series of years, her inhabitants were taxed ninety thousand 
dollars, and since that time, one hundred thousand dollars, |?er an- 
7iiuti, for the support of Common Schools. The Selectmen of the 
towns were required by law to assess to that extent. Besides this, 
the towns are authorised to vote an unlimited amount for this object, 
and under this statute provision, many of them have assessed upon 
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42 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

themselves large sums. The income derived from a tax upon her 
Banks, amounting to some ten or twelve thousand dollars annually, 
is applied to the same purpose. Large sums are expended in her 
numerous Academies, and in her College. And, for many years, 
she has appropriated from four to six hundred dollars, for the edu- 
cation of her Blind, and from fifteen to twenty-four hundred- dollars, 
for the education of her Deaf and Dumb, in the institutions of oth- 
er States. 

If you turn to the census of 1840, you will see that, with a pop- 
ulation considerably less than two-fifths that of Massachusetts, she 
had nearly two-thirds as many Common Schools, and more than 
half the number of scholars ; and that, in only one other of the 
United States, (Connecticut,) were there so few persons, over twen- 
ty years of age, who are unable to read and write. 

I shall not be supposed to intend any invidious distinction b}'' 
this comparison, still less to assert any superiority for New Hamp- 
shire. But I risk nothing in saying that there is no State in the 
Union, which, in proportion to her means, has done more for the 
education of all classes of her population. 

It is this diligence in the education of her children, which has 
enabled her to maintain, and send forth, such a body of active, in- 
dustrious, and intelligent Agriculturists, Mechanics, Manufacturers, 
Merchants, and Professional Men. 

Sir, it was particularly in reference to her Bar, that a ripe scholar 
of Massachusetts, some five or six years since, said of her, that 
she " is, what Horace called ancient Libya, arida nutrix leonum.^' 
But her " lions," do not, by any means, belong solely to the legal 
profession. They are found in all classes of her citizens. In the 
character of "dry nurse," thus given to her, she is, of course, not 
bound to provide sustenance for them. But if they are not satis- 
fied with the game furnished by her primeval forests, and rock- 
bound hills, she may at least claim the credit of having so trained 
them, that they can pursue their quest elsewhere ; and there is no 
occupation, and no land, in which her sons are not found, from the 
hunters of gold among the mountains of California, to the preachers 
of the Gospel upon the plains of China and Ilindostan. [Cheers.] 

I may not tire you with an enumeration of the learned Lawyers 
and skilful advocates, who have adorned her Bar. But I may 



MR. Parker's speech. 43 

mention, among many eminent men, now numbered with the dead, 
her SulUvans, the elder Atherton, Gordon, the ekler Chigget, 
Prentiss, AYest, John C. Chamberlain, Prescott, Mason, Ezekiel 
Webster, Haven, Upham, Yose, and the elder Wilson. It is true, 
that some of these were not natives of New Hampshire, but their 
fame is written in her annals, and a part, at least, of their reputa- 
tion is her property. 

Were it not that the language of eulogy is not for the living, I 
could add a long list of those whose powers of investigation and 
argument, and eloquence, might well cause dismay, in any but hon- 
est opponents, and an impartial Judiciary. 

Of her Judiciary, I may say, that there have been times when 
she would not suffer by a comparison with most of her sister States. 
Of her Judges of the last century, it will be sufficient to refer to 
Meshech Weare, and Samuel Livermore, as among the most prom- 
inent ; and in the present, although one of them is yet spared to 
her, the names of Smith, and Arthur Livermore, of ElHs, and 
Richardson, may be referred to, as well known to us all. Of the 
incumbents of her Bench from 1838, or in fact from 1833 to 1848, 
it becomes me to say no more than that they endeavored, in the 
language of their official oath, " faithfully and impartially, to dis- 
charge and perform all the duties incumbent upon them, according 
to the best of their abilities." But some of those who now hold 
seats in her highest judicial tribunal may point to the record as evi- 
dence, that in the matter of " eminent domain," or the right of 
sovereignty, as it is connected with " the right of vmy^"* they hold 
independent opinions, and, I was about to say, dared to express 
them ; but there is no daring in upholding Constitutional law in New 
Hampshire. Judge Lynch has no jurisdiction within her borders. 

The presumption certainly is, Sir, that as it has been in these par- 
ticulars, so it shall be. 

Permit me barely to add, in conclusion, that should the time ever 
arrive, when the madness of faction shall subvert the glorious Union 
of these States, and destroy the Constitution, which has raised us to 
our present rank among the Nations, New Hampshire, after having 
in vain attempted to prevent such a catastrophe, will stand ready, 
once more to secure by her vote, some other Union, in Avhich free- 
dom may dispense its blessings. [Cheers.] 



44 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Nay, more, Sir, should the matter come to a sharper arbitrament, 
and should Massachusetts, upon the summit of some other Bunker 
Hill, construct and occupy another fortification ; upon the slope of 
that hill-side, New Hampshire will be found, and although she may 
again have no better protection, than a frail breast-work of rails 
and of hay, behind that feeble barrier, she will stand up and do 
battle manfully, side by side with Massachusetts, in the cause of 
constitutional liberty. [Increased enthusiasm and applause.] 

The President. Among the guests invited to be here on this oc- 
casion, was Gen. Lewis Cass, of Michigan. The distance of his 
home, and other circumstances, prevented his attendance. He has 
written a letter to the Committee which will be published. He 
regrets that he cannot be here to-night. He speaks of himself, 
and he speaks of a most worthy and respectable person, his father. 
Gen. Jonathan Cass, of the Revolutionary Army, whom I had the 
honor to know when a boy. 

Gen. Lewis Cass is a native of Exeter. He was at school under 
the ferule of that most worthy and excellent man, now lately gone 
to another world, Benjamin Abbott. "With Lewis Cass, I was a fel- 
low student in that Academy, at the commencement of my course 
of education. I have entertained for him always the kindest per- 
sonal feelmg. Differing in many things, I have found him always 
affable and courteous. He is a man of great attainment ; he is 
a reading man, and an inquiring man, and in whatever degree 
of latitude he sees fit to fix himself, he has some reason to give 
for it. [Overpowering applause.] Gentlemen, with the cordiality 
which one Exeter boy should feel for another Exeter boy, I propose 
to you, health and long life to Lewis Cass. [Cheers.] 

Fifth regular sentiment : — 

5. The Revolutionarg Heroes and tie early Statesmen of Neio HampsUre ! 

You will see at once that the first part of this toast could be com- 
mitted to the recognition of no hands so well, as to those of Gen. 
Henry Alexander Scammel Dearborn, here present. 



MR. dearborn's speech. 45 



SPEECH OF GEN. DEARBORN. 



Mr. President and FcUoiv Cousins — 

I regret that I am not able to respond to the sentiment -which 
has been last given in a manner commensurate with its import, for it 
embraces a large portion of our National History, and its most in- 
teresting biography. 

New Hampshire, as has been said by your President, was com- 
pelled by her position to be a Military State, and in proportion to 
her inhabitants, no one in this broad Union has sent forth more or 
abler men, to the battle-field, than that State. When our forefath- 
ers went there for Liberty, for the enjoyment of the rights of Free- 
men, both civil and religious, they were often compelled to have re- 
sort to arms. And, from its first settlement till the close of the 
French War, in 1763, her troops were continually in the field, and, 
also, even down to the Peace of 1783. 

We had Waldron, and Westbrook, and Penhallow, and Lovewell, 
a name justly distinguished in New Hampshire, as both father and 
son were able officers. The name of the former will be ever dear for 
the gallant manner in which he sold his life in fighting for the de- 
fence of the homes and the firesides of his fellow citizens, in the 
memorable battle near the banks of Saco river in 1725. 

After that period, came the old French War, as it is called, in which 
New Hampshire did its full portion of fighting, on the land and on 
the sea. From among her sons was selected the Commander of the 
expedition to Louisburg, in the Island of Cape-Breton, where he 
won the only victory, and that an honorable one, during the whole 
war, which ended in the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle. The news of 
this conquest was received in England with as much rejoicing as in 
after times was the celebrated victory of Waterloo. 

But the men from New Hampshire, and the thousands from Mas- 
sachusetts and Rhode Island, who co-operated with them, received 
no honors or rewards. The English Admiral Warren, who, command- 
ing a few ships and finng a few guns, returned home and obtained the 
Avhole honor of the conquest of that important fortress and was re- 
warded as the hero of the expedition. But no matter ! Hereafter, 
the name of Pepperel will be remembered, as that of an eminent 
chieftain of old New Hampshire. 



46 NEAV HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Our native State sent also into the field, not only Rogers and his 
Rangers, but regiment after regiment, to reinforce the army of 
Gen. Amherst on Lake Champlain, and one of them commanded 
by Col. Goff, cut its way through the wilderness, ffom Concord to 
Crown Point. Cilley, so distinguished as a Colonel in the Revolu- 
tion, was there as a Sergeant, and many men, who afterwards be- 
came celebrated in the War of our Independence. When that broke 
out upon us, New Hampshire, with a spirit and an ardor for which 
she has ever been renowned, flung herself at once into the conflict. 
She organized immediately three regiments, and put them under 
the command of Stark, Reed, and Poor. Generals Sullivan, Stark, 
and Poor, and Colonels Cilley, Scammel, Reed, Hale, and their gal- 
lant corps, will be revered for their patriotic and heroic services in 
the battles of Bunker Hill, Quebec, Saratoga, Long Island, Harlem, 
White Plains, Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, and 
the last, which was fought at Yorktown, for the achievement of Na- 
tional Independence. 

Your President, and other gentlemen who have preceded me, 
have given biographical sketches of most of these men. It is there- 
fore unnecessary for me to extend my remarks beyond what I have 
said ; but of Scammel I am bound to speak one word. His bra- 
very, integi'ity, honesty, justice, and gentlernanly bearing, not on- 
ly among the oflicers, but down to the ranks of the common sol- 
diers, all appreciated, who had the honor of knowing him, and how- 
ever turbulent might be the soldiers, during those disastrous cam- 
paigns, when, without pay, they Avere suffering from hunger and 
deficiency of clothing, in the inclement months of winter, they pa- 
tiently yielded to their deplorable condition, in the full confidence, 
that all which could be, was done, whenever they heard these words 
pronounced at the end of a General Order, " By his Excellency's 
command, Alexander Scammel, Adjutant General." Such confi- 
dence had they in his rectitude of conduct, and his respect for 
their rights and interests. 

New Hampshire not only furnished her full proportion of officers 
of the higher grades, but innumerable subalterns ; to speak of whose 
character would occupy a night, instead of the fev/ minutes to which 
I am limited. It is sufficient that you all know them. You have been 
famihar with their names and characters from your school-boy days. 



MR. dearborn's speech, 47 

Your President has informed you of tlie number of troops fur- 
nished by New England. Let me tell you Avhat New Hampshire 
did. She sent to the field more troops than New Jersey, and as 
many as Maryland, which had a third larger population ; [applause,] 
as many as the whole of North and South Carolina, which had 
twice the population ; and half as many as Pennsylvania and Vir- 
ginia, Avith three times the population. Besides, as difficult as it 
was to raise funds, particularly in 1779, '80, and '81, when the issue 
of paper money had amounted to three hundred and fifty millions, 
and had so fallen in value, that it was passing two hundred for 
one, five hundred for one, a thousand for one, and at last, in the 
Autumn of 1781, was prostrated in the dust, the Northern States, 
in the early portion of the last mentioned year, raised and sent to 
the Continental Treasmy, $450,000 in specie ; and New Hampshire, 
Avhen, from one to three hundred dollars in paper money was given 
for one of silver, sent twenty-four dollars in specie to each of her 
soldiers, not as pay, or for clothing, or provisions due to them, but 
as a gratuity. 

The civil portion of your history has been alluded to. That I 
leave to other hands. But I must speak of one of the civil char- 
acters of New Hampshire, a man, who for a quarter of a century, 
has stood in the two Houses of Congress, as the champion of the 
Constitution. [Prolonged cheering.] He has lived through a 
period of our history, when some of the great principles of the 
Constitution were, for the first time, acted upon, when some of the 
highest powers, both of the Legislature and of the Executive, were 
first called into requisition, on extraordinary and very momentous 
occasions, on attempts made to exercise powers, not warranted by the 
great charter of our Liberties ; and as Representative and Senator, 
he was ever found, eloquently contending for the fundamental princi- 
ples of the Constitution and the preservation of the Union. At all 
times he evinced the fearless and independent spirit of an American 
citizen, and never failed to maintain an exalted position, from the able 
manner in which he discharged the high and responsible duties of 
his station. His speeches will be quoted through all time, in the 
highest tribunals of justice throughout the land, with the letters of 
Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, and the commentaries of Kent and 



48 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Story, -wlienever any constitutional question shall be submitted for 
consideration. 

On all occasions, when he put forth the full energies of his 
mind, he appeared in the Senate chamber, like the lion-hearted 
Richard in the tournament of Ashby de la Zouch, ready to meet 
all combatants, and woe betide those who received the ponderous 
and crushing blows of his mighty intellectual mace. 

The President. Among those invited on this occasion was your 
fellow-citizen, Hon. Samuel Appleton. I am sure there is not a 
man here, who does not hear his name announced with pleasure, and 
who does not regret his absence. I am sure there is not a man here 
who does not accord to him high and cordial respect for the up- 
rightness of his life, for the usefulness of his activity and influence ; 
in all efforts of public and private nature to promote the happi- 
ness of his fellow-men, and for that considerate and munificent char- 
ity, which instructs him how to dispose of honestly earned and large- 
ly accumulated Avcalth for the benefit of mankind. [Cheers.] 

Mr. Appleton is the elder brother of a family well known to you. 
He is a native of my own County, having been born in the town of 
New Ipswich. He began life by himself, and by himself he lias ac- 
complished the possession of all the comforts of life, Avealth, and 
means, and usefulness in society. He is aged, and confined by 
lameness ; but with memory and faculties unimpaired, in the enjoy- 
ment of general regard, and all the pleasures of private affection, 
life is still happy to him. He has written you an affectionate let- 
ter. He says it would be pleasant for him to join with us and meet 
with us all, and adds, " I regret that by the pressure of age, and 
by the infirmity of my limbs, I shall be prevented from being 
present. 

I remain, &c. 

SAMUEL APPLETON, 

Aged 83 years, 4mos. 15 days." 

He sends us the following sentiment : — 

" The Memonj of the Illustrious Dead of New Hampshire. — And may the 
Living of that State, at home or abroad, so imitate the virtues of the Great and 
Good, who have gone before them, that -when they arc called to make their final 
exit, they may die the death of the Eightcous." 



MR. nUEBARD'S SPEECH. 49 

The toast which I last read, alhided to the early Statesmen of 
New Hampshire. Gen. Dearborn has responded to the part refer- 
ring to our Revolutionary Heroes. I now have the pleasure of 
calling upon another gentleman, Gov. Hubbard, to reply to the 
other portion of that sentiment. 



SPEECH OF HON. HENRY HUBBARD. 

EX-GOVERXOR OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

There can be but few men in this assembly, native sons of New 
Hampshire, and now citizens of that Commonwealth, who are my 
seniors in age. I am fast approaching that period fixed as the 
limit to human existence, and I cannot fail to be reminded that the 
place I here occupy would better have been filled by another. But, 
Sir, I have come up hither to meet my brethren, the native sons of 
my own beloved State, now the adopted citizens of the Common- 
w-ealth of Massachusetts. I could not have denied myself the 
unmixed pleasure of joining in this Festival. And no man present 
can have more sincere gratification than myself, on witnessing sa 
many individuals here assembled, whose faces have been long 
familiar to me ; so many of the native sons of our father-land. It 
is my pride, my boast, that I am one of the native sons of that old 
State ; that I was born within her borders ; yes. Sir, in the very 
town and habitation in which I now abide, and in which I expect to 
number my days on earth. Sir, we were both educated together 
under the venerable \Yheelock, long since gathered to his fathers. 
You have passed beyond the borders for a larger and a more exten- 
sive field for action. I have remained at the old homestead, con- 
tented and happy. You have gained a most preeminent distinction 
in the councils of our common country. I have been content to 
remain at home, enjoying the gratification that a native son of New 
Hampshire, an old fellow student, was held in such high estimation 
by the freemen of our land. It has been my privilege to have 
served my native town and State, in different official relations, for 
nearly a third part of my whole life. I have often derived the sin- 
cerest pleasure, in the course of my official life, in meeting in the 
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50 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

councils of our nation, native sons of New Hampshire, representa- 
tives of other States in this confederacy. And with no Uttle pride 
have I alluded to the fact, that on more than one occasion, one 
tenth part of the members of the United States Senate received their 
birth and education in New Hampshire. Not one other member of 
the "old thirteen" can boast of such a distinction. ["Hear," 
"hear."] 

New Hampshire is most truly a Granite State ; but her popula- 
tion, by education and discipline, have been fitted for the hardiest 
enterprises. Her motto has ever been, and still is, that labor and 
perseverance will overcome every obstacle and command success. 
To the judicious application of labor, the capital of our hardy yeo- 
manry, is to be attributed the products of their soil and of their 
workshops. 

New Hampshire has been, still is, and, I trust, ever will be, a 
good State to draw on for intelligence, skill, enterprise, and for 
every moral virtue. [Applause.] Should I be called upon to 
make good this declaration, I would appeal to those, composing this 
assembly, who have left their ancient home. I would appeal to 
those around me, and most triumphantly would I obtain conviction 
to the truth of my remark. 

Among the native sons of New Hampshire here assembled, you 
will not only find the distinguished Statesman, but honored mem- 
bers of every profession. You will find men distinguished for their 
learning ; the intelligent merchant, mechanic, and tradesman ; men 
employed in every enterprise, and adding, by their character, skill, 
and industry, to the wealth and worth of this City. May it not, 
then, be said, that New Hampshire has been a good State to draw 
on, to increase the population, the learning, the industry, the enter- 
prise, the virtue, and the valor of other States ? 

If other proof were wanting, to the truth of my remark, I might 
well refer to the distinguished Statesmen and Scholars of other 
portions of our Repubhc, beyond the limits of New England ; men 
there, adorning the learned professions ; men there, engaged in the 
various occupations and business of life ; men, who peopled the 
prairies of the West, and who have, by their skill, covered their 
waters Avith floating palaces ; who have been educated, well directed, 
receiving their first impressions and impulses in the old Granite 



MR. Hubbard's speech. 61 

State. New Hampshire, then, has been, and still is, a good and 
reliable State to draw on for the purpose of adding to the stock 
of intelligence and morals of other States. [Great applause] 

A distinguished Jurist, once residing within our borders, remarked 
that " New Hampshire was a good State to emigrate from." This 
remark could not have been made by my old master but to repre- 
sent the excess and abundance of talent and of worth abiding within 
its limits, which might be more usefully and profitably employed 
elsewhere. For that high purpose. New Hampshire has, in the 
spirit of pure benevolence, given up some of her brightest and 
choicest jewels. [Loud cheers.] She has thus permitted the 
distinguished individual, who now presides over this assembly, 
to pass beyond her Hmits ; and she has, in like manner, given up, 
for the use of our beloved country, another distinguished individual, 
who, could I have had my will, would now be presiding over this 
nation. 

In reference to the civil history of New Hampshire, and to those 
who early put forth their efforts to sustain the principles embodied 
in the Declaration of Independence, and to aid in the formation of 
a free government, I can add nothing to what has already been 
said. The ground has been pre-occupied ; the men of those times 
have been spoken of as they deserved to be spoken of. We never 
can forget the exertions and labors of Bartlett, Thornton, Livermore, 
West, Sullivan, Langdon, and Weare, in gi\ing Independence to 
our country, and to New Hampshire a government for the just pro- 
tection and security of the rights of freemen. The framers of our 
Constitution were, themselves, deeply impressed with the importance 
of guarding with vigilance the liberty of the people ; the Revolution 
had closed ; the Independence of the States had been acknowledged. 
New Hampshire had contributed much, in men and money, to bring 
that mighty contest to a successful termination. 

In no part of this extended Republic, are the vital principles of 
equality and liberty more sacredly cherished and preserved, than in 
my own native State. From the first settlement at Portsmouth, to 
the institution of civil Government in 1G38, the cause of individual 
rights and popular freedom was maintained with great and unyield- 
ing pertinacity. It was alike preserved for the period of nearly 
forty years, from 1641, during which time Massachusetts extended 



52 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

her jurisdiction over mj own native land. The right to elect, and 
to be elected, to civil office, during that period, -was not in New 
Hampshire confined to members of a visible church, but was aright 
equally enjoyed by all of her freemen and good citizens. 

The same love of liberty was exemplified, by the owners of the 
soil, from the days of John Cutts to those of Mesliech Weare ; 
through all the eventful periods of their history, in the formation of 
the new Convention, in January 7, 177(3, in defiance of royal 
power, as well as in the admirable Declaration of Independence, in 
June of the same year. The pioneers of that mighty revolution, 
also, which resulted in the establishment of the rights of freemen, 
were the open and fearless advocates of popular liberty. 

The brave men who went forth to battle, our Sullivan, Stark, and 
Scammel, and all of our Revolutionary worthies, were the unflinch- 
ing and unceasing supporters of human rights, of human liberty and 
e(|uality. 

John Sullivan was the first Governor of New Hampshire, 
and, after the adoption of the Constitution, was succeeded by 
Gov. Langdon. These two men have already been referred to, 
and it is unnecessary for me to take up your time in speaking 
of them. 

But, Sir, I cannot permit this occasion to pass, without paying 
a tribute of respect to a citizen of my own native town, who con- 
tributed as much as any other individual to the formation of the 
Constitution of New Hampshire. I allude to the late Benjamin 
West. Of the distinguished men who followed Mr. West, it 
is unnecessary for me to give you any detailed account. Suffice 
it to say, that there has been one great principle which has ac- 
companied the actions of our best men ; that is, to maintain, 
unimpaii-ed, the sacred rights of man. [Loud and prolonged 
applause.] 

Mr. President — I will no longer trespass on the time of this 
assembly, but Avill close by ofiering the following sentiment : — 

Civil and Religious Liberty ; — Rights guarantied to every son of Kew Ilamp- 
eliire ; boldly declared at Bunker Hill by her Stark, sacredly confirmed at 
Yorktown by her Scammel. 

[Cheers.] 



MR. GOODRICH'S SPEECH. 53 

The President. I hold a letter from Gov. Dinsmore, the 
present Chief Magistrate of New Hampshire. Official duties con- 
fine him at home. He is conscious of no cause more calculated to 
gratify the just pride of a native of New Hampshire, than this 
Festival. I propose, 

The health of Goveenor Dinsmore, of Neiv Hampshire. 

[Applause.] 
The sixth regular toast was then announced as follows : — 

Dartmouth College — Originally her voice was like tLiat of one crying in the 
■wilderness, but she has seen that ■wilderness bud and blossom like the rose ; and 
she herself has produced some flowers for the ornament, and some ripe fruits, 
for the benefit of the country. 



[SPEECH OF CHAKLES B. GOODRICH, Esq. 

Mr. President — 

We occupy to-day a common position. We come here not for 
any purpose local in its character, but for an interchange of social 
sentiment ; to review, by the aid of recollection, the incidents of 
early life and of home ; to contrast the realities of mature age 
with our early anticipations. 

To-morrow, we shall again mingle with the crowd, and our tem- 
porary distinctive character will cease. As it is with us, so is it 
with the States which constitute our Union. At home, they are 
many, each in its industry, in its intellect, in its good works, emu- 
lous of every other. Abroad, to those who look upon us from the 
distance, the United States have no dividing line, they are one. 
[Cheers.] On an occasion like this, we may well pause for a mo- 
ment, and enquire, whether we have done, for our country and its 
institutions, all which our country and its institutions had a right to 
ask of us. Our country presents a novel and interesting position. 
It has proclaimed, in terms not to be mistaken, not to be misunder- 
stood, that political and civil liberty is the right of man. This lib- 
erty is regulated and guarded by law ; regulated by law which has 
been enacted by ourselves. Higher than this, the law is regulated 



54 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

in its inception, and in its change, by public opinion. Intelligent 
public opinion, is adequate to sustain and uphold any government, 
however feeble its constructure may be. Chastened and intelligent 
public opinion can resist and control the encroachment of any gov- 
ernment, however poAverful it may be. It is our duty to enlarge, 
elevate, and expand, this public opinion, to enable our Literary In- 
stitutions, to aid, as they have done, in the work. 

The College, to which reference has been made, I may well say, 
has done much to accomplish this purpose. It was said by a dis- 
tinguished English jurist, in a discourse addressed to sons of the 
nobility, that they were soon to become the Legislators of their 
country, that they were bound to know something of its institutions 
and of its laws, to qualify themselves for the trust so soon to be 
confided to them. Here, Sir, we are all sons of the nobility. 
[Applause.] It is important, therefore, that we should know some- 
thing of the institutions under which we live, and of the principles, 
by which they have been, and are to be sustained ; of the principles 
by which our relation with other Nations are to be guided and con- 
trolled. 

Do you ask me. Sir, w^hy these principles are stated here, on this 
occasion. I answer, I would that this Association shall, to-day, do 
something, which may make an impress upon those Avho shall come 
after us, something which shall be permanent. I would that this 
Association do something, which will, through all future time, give 
to it a character, a dignity, and an import, which the temporary gath- 
ering of an hour cannot do. It is. Sir, for the purpose of suggest- 
ing a project for consideration, which I think may accomplish this, 
that I have submitted the remarks already made. Since the adop- 
tion of the Federal Constitution, our country has made some ad- 
vance in every department of learning. It has advanced more, 
perhaps, than any country in the world, certainly as effectually as 
any, in the knowledge of that jurisprudence which regulates the 
intercourse of Nations with each other. 

Since the adoption of that Constitution, questions have arisen and 
have been discussed in this department of knowledge, which before 
had not arisen, which before had not been discussed in the manner in 
which they since have been ; the impressment of seamen, the right 
of search in time of peace, and, more recently, the extradition of 



MR. Goodrich's speech. 65 

those, "W'lio, escaping from political wrong at home, have here sought 
an Asylum, and here have found one. This subject, even now, is 
attracting the attention of the country. Even now, we see that 
the Sultan of Turkey has made an advance in this department of 
knowledge, which would do credit to an American citizen. [Loud 
cheers.] The Institution, to whose name I have been called to 
answer, has presented one, has sent forth from its classic walls one, 
at least, who has given to this department of learning, the aid of a 
mighty intellect, [applause ;] has given to its principles a form, a 
proportion, which no rude hand can mar, [sensation ;] has given to 
its structure a rank and elevation, the foundation of wdiich cannot 
be shaken. [Immense enthusiasm.] I would repay the Institu- 
tion, which has been named, for what it has done. I would enable 
it to do more. I would. Sir, that this Association shall, this day, 
commence a foundation by voluntary contribution ; each member 
giving any sum, from the lowest known to our currency upward, 
according to inclination and ability, upon which to establish at 
Dartmouth College a Professorship, to be designated, " The Ncav 
Hampshire Professorship of the Law of Nations." 

I would that every member of this Association, enroll his name in 
favor of the project, and contribute thereto some sum, however 
small. I will guarantee, that the spirit which animates the breasts 
of the sons of New Hampshire, the sons of Dartmouth, in favor 
of the only institution of the highest grade, within the State, will, 
within ten years, complete the work w^hich you may commence ; 
shall perfect there a fountain, from which shall ever flow streams 
of knowledge. It is a learning essential to the American people. 
Although it is the highest department of knowledge, it is one in 
which the most humble citizen of this country may learn something 
which shall promote his individual interest, elevate his character ; 
which shall render him more efficient In the service of his country. 
It is, Sir, a department of learning in which the proudest Intellect 
may ever find room for its exercise. [Repeated cheers.] Shall 
we not, then, do something, as a compliment to the only Institution 
in the State, which is of a high grade ? And more. Sir, shall we 
not, on this occasion, do something which shall be a compliment to 
ourselves, something which we, and our children coming after us, 
may look upon as the proudest act of our lives ? I will now read 



66 NEW HAMPSHIKE FESTIVAL. 

two resolutions, which I have prepared for the purpose of carrjnng 
into effect the proposition which I have suggested : — 

Ixesolved, That this Association give such sum, as its members 
may voluntarily contribute, to the Trustees of Dartmouth College, 
in trust, as the commencement of a fund with which to establish a 
Professorship, to be designated, " The New Hampshire Professor- 
ship of the Law of Nations." 

Resolved, That a committee of five, to be appointed by the Pres- 
ident, be authorized to receive and remit such contributions as may 
be made for the purpose expressed in the first resolution, accom- 
panied by an abstract of the proceedings of the Association. 

I submit these resolutions for the consideration of the Association. 
One purpose which I have in view, is, that annually or biennial, 
in addition to such regular instruction as may be given to the 
senior class, a regular course of Lectures shall be delivered, free 
to all, which shall build up, for this Listitution, a reputation higher 
than it has attained, which shall redound to the honor and benefit of 
our native State. I am aware that it may be difficult for the In- 
stitution to send forth any, who shall surpass, or shall equal, one 
whom it has already sent forth ; but a fair pathway can be fur- 
nished, by which all can attempt to equal the high standard before 
them, and may reach so near as they may. I will only add, that 
this proposition has been submitted without consultation with any 
one. If the project fails, mine be the reproach. If it succeed, to 
you, Mr. President, and to you, Gentlemen, who surround me on 
either side, be the credit. [Great applause.] 

The President. I do not feel at liberty to proceed to the an- 
nouncement of the next regular sentiment without an expression of 
my hearty concurrence in the proposition, which has been made by 
the honorable gentleman who has now resumed his seat. A Pro- 
fessorship of the Law of Nations, at the College of New Hamp- 
shire, is an idea which strikes me with grandeur. 

Gentlemen, every year of our lives, the events of all the world 
occurring every day, show us the importance of that great code ; 



MR. WEBSTER'S REMARKS. 57 

a code ^Yhich power cannot trample upon with impunity, a code 
■which upholds the weak against the strong, a code which minor na- 
tions may appeal to against more powerful nations ; in short, it is 
that univei'sal Law, that, next to the Laws of the Universe, holds the 
world in its power. Gentlemen, I concur most heartily in this 
proposition. If I were rich, I would endow such a Professorship. 
[" Hear, hear."] If I were young, I would profler myself as 
a candidate to lecture in it. [Enthusiastic shouts of applause.] 
But I am neither the one nor the other, yet I hope that I shall be 
the first man who, with the smallest sum, shall sign that paper. 
[Cheers.] 

Gentlemen, our distinguished guest, Mr. Justice Woodbury, is- 
obliged to retire, but not before offering the following sentiment. 

The Daughters, as well as the Sous of New Hampshire, who live away from 
their native land ! 

[Applause.] 

I proceed to allude to the letters which have been received. 
Here is one from a very venerable character, Hon. Arthur Liver- 
more, all his life in the public service, in the Legislature of the 
State, in the House of Representatives in Congress, or on the 
Bench of Justice ; now advanced to a very great age, expressing 
his sorrow that on that account he cannot be here. I have, pri- 
vately and personally, the highest regard for this gentleman. 

Allow me to say, that early in my career of life, some cause was 
on trial before him, in which, with so much ability he distinguished 
the true from the false, the real from the plausible, the just from 
the unjust; with so much steadiness, upholding right against every 
invasion of it, that an ingenuous young man who sat near me, no 
more concerned in the case than I was, but influenced by high, 
moral sentiment and feeling, spoke out most audibly to all, " What 
a glorious spectacle on earth is a just Judge." [Cheering.] 

I have a letter from Mr. Edmund Burke, formerly member of 
Congress from the State of IS'ew Hampshire, and recently Commis- 
sioner of Patents. He offers the following sentiment : — 

New HampsJdre, the Cornelia of States. — She can point to many of the prou d- 
est names of the RepubHc, and exclaim, " these are my jewels." 
8 



58 NEAV HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

The next toast is as follows : — 

7. NeiD England ! — Her plantations, of whicli we chietly boast, are the 
Colleges, Churches, and Free Schools, established by our fathers, nurtured by 
their descendants, and which, under the blessing of Providence, have made her 
and her population what they are. 

I look round to find liim who shall expound and explain this ; 
and I call upon the Senator from New Hampshire. 

SPEECH OF THE HON. JOHN P. HALE. 

3Ir. President — 

It is related, Sir, by that truthful traveller, whose travels we have 
all perused in our infancy Avith so much pleasure and so much as- 
tonishment, (whose surname only I can recollect,) Gulliver ; I say, 
it is related in his truthful travels, that he once found people so in- 
tellectually absorbed, so elevated above the common concerns of life, 
that every one had to have a flapper employed, whose business it was 
to flap him at proper periods. Sir, if a public speaker should over- 
step the time which the patience of the audience had allotted to 
him, the flapper came to tell him of it in a way not to be mis- 
taken. [Laughter and applause.] 

I would not intimate that if we all of us have flappers here, they 
would have occasion to exercise their functions. But I would 
announce to you that, of all this assembly, I am the only individual 
that has, on this occasion, a flapper to keep him from making too 
long a speech. [" Hear, hear."] 

The circumstances happened in this wise. When I went into 
your Senate Chamber this afternoon, I met a venerable friend, 
wdio notified me that I was to be called on to make a speech. I told 
him tliat I had not been invited to speak and should of course say 
nothing. He replied, " we talked it all over beforehand. We 
thought if we sent word in our invitations that we expected a 
speech from each one, that alone would prevent some from coming, 
and that if you did decide to attend, you would go to work elabor- 
ating a long, windy, uninteresting thing. If, on the other hand, we 
gave little or no notice, you could not have time to concoct much of a 



MR. bale's speech. 69 

spcccli ; you would have to be short." [Much merriment,] I 
thanked the gentleman, because it is good for us to obtain the ad- 
vantage of having flappers, and not let the audience see when we 
arc flapped. [Increased laughter.] I intend to obey that injunc- 
tion strictly. I intend to make but a short speech. And I could 
not make any other, because, whatever we have been listening to, 
we have had a good dinner come before it, [applause ;] and a good 
dinner is one of the worst preparations of a good speech. [Re- 
newed applause.] 

I may say, however, that when I stand in a locality, every 
stream, and every valley, and every hill, of which is an eternal mon- 
ument of the past, and when I see around me a thousand faces, 
every one a living representative of the virtue and intelligence of 
the present, it is with no aifected diffidence that I regret that it has 
not fallen to abler hands to speak a word for New England, the 
nursing mother of us all. And, Sir, while I recollect that we 
are all members of New England, and, in that sense, fellow-sons ; 
and, in a broader sense, citizens of the United States, I may 
feel at home among you. But comfortable as are these reflections, 
I cannot forget if I would, and would not if I could, that I stand 
amidst a New Hampshire audience. And we, that arc here com- 
paratively strangers, like the younger sons of a family, we come like 
those Avhose vis inertice has kept us about the homestead, taking care 
of the old folks. We come up here to see you in your pride and 
your power, to rejoice, as younger children should rejoice, in the 
success and the fame that has been achieved by the enterprising 
and adventurous in wider fields of labor than we have enjoyed. 
[Prolonged cheering.] 

We come then, friends and fellow citizens, to thank you, while we 
remember that in the Senate, in the field of battle, and in the 
pulpit, the memory and the fame of New Hampshire have been 
preserved and kept bright, and her renown cherished by those of 
you that have gone out from us ; while we remember that the mem- 
ory of her wit has been kept Grreene by the living press in the city, 
[cheers ;] while we remember this, and express our gratitude for it, 
let me say, that the interest which you have felt to build up a com- 
mon fame in a common country, is fully appreciated by her sons 



60 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

■wlio have remained, I claim that we may exult in the common 
achievements, and rejoice in what has been wrought by the common 
sense of New Hampshire. We feel that your enterprise has erected 
monuments as well to our fame as your own. We feel that the 
success which you have achieved, is a part of the common inherit- 
ance which belongs to us, and that we have a right, as common 
inheritors with you, to rejoice in the whole. And, Sir, it may be 
excusable if we indulge in a little family pride. 

Permit me, Sir, to speak of one single incident that has occurred 
in my experience. You may remember that on a former occasion, 
when you visited one of the Southern States, it was a matter of 
considerable inquiry among the younger people, whether you were 
the identical man that made the Spelling Book and Dictionary. 
[Much laughter.] Not long after that, it happened to me tolbe 
in one of the remote towns of New Hampshire, about the time that 
you, yourself, Mr. President, had been in that neighborhood. And 
one of the little fellows had come to this hke query ; "Is that the 
same Webster who made the Dictionary ? " 

I well remember the appropriate reply : " That is not the man 
who made Webster's Dictionary, but it is the one who has taken 
the words of Webster's Dictionary and combined them in language 
of a more beautiful and sublime form than any man who ever lived 
before him." [Enthusiastic and reiterated cheering.] 

Some allusion, Sir, has been made to the early Military and Civil 
History of New Hampshire, and a remark also has been made by 
one, " how soon it is that all these events fade away." Let me recall 
one incident, that may be familiar to most of you, and which, on the 
occasion of a New Hampshire Festival, should not be forgotten. I 
allude to an incident in the life of one of the most devoted patriots of 
New Hampshire, John Langdon. In one of the darkest periods of 
the Revolution, when our means were small, the Provincial Legis- 
lature was in session in Exeter, the resources of the country 
were at the lowest ebb, despair was on every mind, when John 
Langdon arose in that assembly and made this very remarkable 
speech : " I have two thousand dollars in specie. I will pledge 
my plate for as much more. I have eighty hogsheads of Tobago 
Rum, which will be sold for the service of the State. The 
Country shall have it all. If we succeed in establisliing our liberty, 



MR, hale's speech. 61 

I shall be repaid ; if not, property is of no value." Such a propo- 
sition rc-animatcd every one ; called hope back to all, and, as the 
Governor said, " We can now raise a New Hampshire regiment, 
and my friend, John Stark, can command it." 

The Regiment was raised. Stark marched his troops to Ben- 
nington, and calling them together, in sight of the Rod Coats, made 
this noted speech : " There 's the enemy, boys ; and we beat to-day, 
or Sally Stark 's a widow." [Rapturous applause.] The events 
of that battle are familiar to you all. The consequences that im- 
mediately followed the surrender of Burgoyne, may be traced, by 
a direct chain of cause and effect, to the generous and patriotic 
offer that was made by John Langdon, in the Provincial Legislature 
of New Hampshire, at that early day. [Cheers.] 

And now, Sir, am I disobeying my rule and making a long 
Speech? ["No, no," "goon."] 

And now I will tell you one more anecdote and sit doAvn. Or, 
as a quaint speaker said of one of his stories, " It a'nt an anecdote 
either, for it actually took place ; " in like manner I may say this 
is not an anecdote either, for it is true. [Laughter.] 

As I came to Boston to-day in the cars, I found an old gentle- 
man, sixty-five years of age, who told me he was never in the city of 
Boston before. I asked him whether he was going to the Dinner. 
" No," said he, " I am going to see Mr. Webster." [Applause.] 
And he told me his story thus : " About the year 1777, my father 
was a native of North Hampton, N. H. The people had assembled at 
public worship, and while they were there, a message came from the 
Legislature to have nine men raised, to join the army with Stark's 
forces. After service was over, the terms were proposed, and the 
question raised, whether any volunteers would present themselves ? 
No one came forward. The pay was too small and uncertain. 
After a considerable silence, Capt. Nathan Hobbs, my father, rose 
and said, ' If nine men can be found willing to go, I will double the 
wages, and pay down the money, $2,000, in advance ! ' The requi- 
site nine were obtained ; my father advanced the money, his whole 
fortune ; went back behind the mountains of New Hampshire, and 
there lived and died, a poor man." His son has now come to see if 
the Country will do something to relieve his poverty now. That 
man is in this city, for the first time, in his old age, and will sec you, 



62 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Mr. President, to-morrow, and ask you, wlien you next go to Wash- 
ington, to bring his claim to the notice of Congress, and then he 
will go home, and coming events will tell in what estimation such 
services are held. [Loud cries from all parts of the Hall, " Pass 
round the Hat now."] I propose, 

" The IMcmoiy of that Old ]\Ian, who did such services for his country, 
Capt. Nathan Hobbs." 

[Cheers.] 

The President. If the son of Captain Nathan Hobbs appears 
in Washington, there will then be, in one House of Congress at 
least, two votes for his claim. 

Here is a letter from Hon. Joseph Healy, also one from Hon. 
Jonx Sullivan, well known to you all ; from Rev. Dr. Nichols, of 
Portland ; and this from a most worthy gentleman, Hon. Charles 
H. Atherton, and one also from Mr. Bartlett, of N. H. 

I propose to proceed to the remaining toasts as soon as I can. 

8. Our Invited Guexts ! — Welcome visitors ! bringing us kindred sympathies 
and grateful memories of the Father-Land. 

Let me introduce to you the Hon. Mr. Plummer, though, like 
some of the rest of us, his head is a little whitened, his name is yet 
William Plummer, J;-., and I call upon him to respond to this sen- 
timent. 



SPEECH OF HON. WILLI.y^I PLmBIER, Jr. 

3Ir. President — 

I do not altogether agree with you that a Junior should be called 
on at this time. I see here many others, to whom the duty of re- 
plying to the sentiment just announced from the Chair might have 
been more properly assigned. I have great satisfaction in being 
allowed thus publicly to express, in behalf of the invited guests, 
what I am very sure was their unanimous feeling on this occasion. 
We feel that, in this invitation, you have at once done us an honor, 
and conferred on us a favor ; an honor, which no one would receive 



MR. plummer's speech. 63 

"without the highest gratification ; and a favor, for which no other 
return can he made than the tender of our grateful ackno^Yledg- 
ments. We thank you, Gentlemen, for the honor you have done 
us ; and we are grateful to you for the pleasure we have experienced 
in being with you on this interesting occasion. [" Hear, hear."] 

I know not, Mr. President, to whose happy thought we are in- 
debted for the first idea of this meeting. It has the merit, at least, 
of originality. Its effects cannot but be beneficial. They would 
be so, if they only served, as they already have done, to make us 
better acquainted with each other than we were before. Who is 
there here, that has not, to-day, found some new and agreeable 
acquaintance ? Who, that has not seen or heard something 
which he would not willingly forget ? Who, but has received some 
pleasure in the present, which he may hope to bring forth for en- 
joyment in the future ? But more important results may be ex- 
pected from this meeting, than the mere gratification of our own 
personal feelings. By seeing and knowing more of each other, we 
come to think higher of our native State, and to feel more strongly 
our connection with her ; and this, in my judgment, is no small 
advantage. We are all citizens of one great republic ; but we are 
also all natives of one small State ; and our service is due as much 
to the one as to the other ; nay, Sir, we can but serve the former 
by not forgetting the latter. The blending of opposite qualities is 
necessary to excellence in any department ; and it is the office of 
each State in our Union to furnish its own peculiar ingredient, the 
contingent of its individual character, to the mingled mass, out of 
which a perfect whole, one great and glorious republic, can alone 
arise. State feeling, then, is as necessary for this purpose as na- 
tional feeling ; and I should be sorry to see the time when this local 
feeling should be lost in any broader but more vague sentiment. 
I should be sorry to see the whole country melted down into a 
tame uniformity of character, in which one could not distinguish 
between South Carolina, for instance, and Vermont, or Connecticut 
and Louisiana. No, Sir ; in a just and commendable feeling of 
State pride, let the Virginian still boast that he is of the Ancient 
Dominion, and the Massachusetts man glory in that he is a native 
of the Bay State. Let not our little Delaware lose her identity. 
But, above all, let us, of the Granite State, preserve untouched and 



64 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

immovable, as our native mountains, the virtue and the vigor of our 
national character. [Applause.] 

Something was said here, just now, of somebody who had left the 
State, and was ashamed of New Hampshire. Why, Sir, I never 
heard of such a man ; nor do I believe that he exists. If he does, 
let him look in on this assembly, and he will be ashamed, not of Ids 
native State, but of his own base and degenerate spirit. We, Mr. 
President, who still remain there, and to whom it is a home as well 
as the place of our nativity, have sometimes, when rallied on the 
subject, allowed ourselves to say, half in earnest and half in banter, 
that, though we have sent many good men abroad, we take care to 
keep our best men at home. But really, Sir, when I look around on 
this assembly of the emigrant sons of New Hampshire, and consider, 
too, that this is but a small portion of the mighty mass, I feel that 
it would be, at least, mal-apropos, and, perhaps, on the whole, not 
very easy to maintain, here and in this presence, the affirmative of 
that proposition. I certainly shall not undertake it. No, Gentle- 
men ; we claim no such superiority. We ask only to be regarded 
as brothers, and as equals. That is enough for us ; it is enough, 
we trust, for you. And as for the stranger, if such there be, who 
would learn something of the nature of our soil, we would refer him 
to our exports, to you. Gentlemen, as samples of our native 
growth. He may judge, if he will, of the inherent wealth of the 
land, from what we can afford to send abroad, to lose from it. To 
lose, did I say ; no. Gentlemen, you are not lost to your native State. 
She still claims your allegiance, your fidcUty, your devotion ; and 
she doubts not, if need were, that you would be ready, with your 
means, your talents, and your virtues, to do her any service which 
she might require, or you could render. She sent you out, at first, 
not only to seek your own fortunes, but, in so doing, to reflect credit 
on the land of your birth. This she knew that you could do ; and 
this she is proud to see and to acknowledge that you have well and 
nobly done. In the various departments of business, in the higher 
walks of hfe, in the pulpit, and by the sick bed, at the bar, and on 
the bench, in the Senate, and in the Cabinet, at home and abroad, 
she regards what you have done, and are doing, with just pride and 
satisfaction ; and she feels that, in all this, you are her true and 
worthy sons, decus et tutamen in armis, her ornament and her 



MR. avilson's speech. 65 

defence. The strength of your indomitable will, the vigor of your 
invincible intellect, these are her defence ; the beauty, the splendor 
of your virtue, these are her ornament. She regards you, with 
maternal affection, as rich jewels, that sparkle, like the gems of her 
crystal hills, in diadems of her glory. Could she speak here in 
person, to-day, she AYOuld express to you the warmth of her attach- 
ment in words such as I cannot utter ; and hail you, in your on- 
ward and upward career, with affectionate regard, with hearty 
good-will, with the earnest Qod speed of her fervent benediction. 
[Cheers.] 

The President. I ought, in point of form, to have asked your 
consideration to the resolutions submitted by Mr. Goodrich, with 
respect to the establishment of a Professorship of the Law of Na- 
tions, in Dartmouth College. 

[The resolutions wei'e unanimously adopted.] 

The Chair nominates upon the committee, rendered necessary by 
the adoption of the second resolution, Charles B. Goodrich, Nathan 
Appleton, Isaac Parker, James W. Paige, and John S. Jenness. 

Prof. Haddock and Gen. James Miller, have also sent letters and 
toasts, for " the Sons of New Hampshire." 

Ninth sentiment : — 

9. The Families wJticJi we left, behind ns in our Native Land ! — Fathers, 
Mothers, Brothers, Sisters! — Veneration and affectionate remembrance of 
the Dead, love and good wishes for the Living. 



SPEECH OF HON. JAMES "WILSON. 

Mr. Preudent, and you, Sons of New Hampsliire — 

I regret, Sir, that you have called upon me to respond to the 
sentiment that has just been announced to the audience. There is 
in it a feeling that goes home to the heart, takes hold of the heart- 
strings, and makes them twinge. And, I would, that you had one 
of more feeling, more eloquence, and more power, to speak to you 
in reply to it. 

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66 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

There is something here, in the appearance of the faces now be- 
fore me that, I must say, has carried home some painful emotions 
to my heart. I see here an immense crowd, Sons of New Hamp- 
shire, and my impression is, that they are the young men of New 
Hampshire. You have taken away the strength, you have taken 
away the life and the energy of New Hampshire. 

I thank you for bringing the fathers and the brothers, the moth- 
ers and the sisters, to our recollection. You have spoken, Sir, of 
New Hampshire in its early history, you have spoken of the trials 
and the sufferings of the early settlers of New Hampshire, when 
they penetrated the forest and braved the savage foe. You have 
spoken of New Hampshire and her brave men, in the Revolution- 
ary struggle ; you have spoken of them as they deserved to be 
spoken of, and these young men have spoken of them as they ought 
to be remembered. You have spoken, also, of the great men of New 
Hampshire, as Statesmen and as Professional Men, in Executive 
office, in Judicial office, and in the counsels of the nation. There is 
one peculiarity, however, in regard to our native State, that you 
have not, in my judgment, dwelt upon as you ought to dwell upon 
it. It is this, the migratory cJiaracter of the people. 

It has been my fortune, in the last part of my life, to have been 
taken up by the wave of motion, and landed in the great West. 
And, in this journeying, let me go as far as I can, the very last man 
that I saw, from whose cabin you could chuck a biscuit into the 
Indian Territory, I found, with a few moments conversation, was a 
New Hampshire man. Go where you will, and you can almost 
know him by the fences around his farm, and the cabin in Avhich he 
lives. Inquire, and you will find that he has started away without 
any particular purpose. Tell him that he has everything nicely ar- 
ranged about him, and intimate to him that you suppose he is con- 
tented, and he says, " By no means, Sir, I am about to sell out this 
claim and go to Oregon." [Applause.] This is the character of 
the people. 

When I went once to see a Mr. Parker, in New Hampshire, there 
came a snow storm on the tenth day of May, and we had to ride 
with a stage-coach and four horses. There was one person in the 
company who was a little nervous, who said that he believed (Jod 
never intended that New Hampshire should be settled by white 



MR. Wilson's speech. 67 

persons, for if he had intended this, he wouhl have had children 
born with snow shoes on. [Vociferous applause.] 

He was mistaken. New Hampshire is the very place for children 
to be bom in, and that, too, to emigrate over the whole country, 
to make their impressions upon the institutions of the country. 
[Cheers.] It is our mountains, it is our fountains that issue from 
our mountains, and the pure water that issues from their base ; 
it is the daring that our ancestors have shown in our wars, it is the 
free schools and the free churches that make New Hampshire, pre- 
cisely, just the place to raise men, that make us do as Miller said, 
when called upon to spike the enemy's cannon, " I '11 try." [Great 
enthusiasm.] 

Such has been the result of our chmate, such the result of our 
education, springing partly from the character of the country, and 
partly from the hardy people from which we have emanated. 

I am not going to detain you with a long speech [" go on," " go 
on,"] in behalf of the mothers and sisters. We return you our 
hearty thanks. We will go back and tell them how well the boys 
behave when they go away from home. [Cheers redoubled.] 
We will go back to them, Sir, and we will sit down with the very 
mothers of this audience, and bring tears into their eyes informing 
them, how very cautiously and properly you have treasured up the 
principles which those mothers instilled into you in your childhood. 
In their behalf, let me say to you, that wherever your lot may be 
cast, in the Southern or Western portion of our country, I give it to 
you, in charge, that you carry with you the principles which you 
obtained from the mothers and fathers of New Hampshire. [A 
perfect furor of applause as Gen. Wilson took his seat. He was 
so thoroughly encored that he was compelled again to rise.] I 
barely want to say, that I feel that I am trespassing upon the 
time of so many gentlemen here present, that the audience must 
excuse me. 

The President. There remains but one other regular toast : — 

10. The United Slates, — " One Country, one Constitution, one Destiny." 

And I am directed to call upon the Hon. Mr. Chamberlain, of 
New Hampshire, to respond to it. 



68 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 



SPEECH OF THE HON. LEVI CHAMBERLAIN. 

3Ir. President and Brethren — 

I am sorry that I am called upon to respond to the sentiment of 
the Union of the United States. I do not know, Gentlemen, that it 
is necessary for me to occupy a moment before a New Hampshire 
audience upon this subject. A love of the Union has always been 
connected with the hearts of the Sons of New Hampshire. We 
shall carry it, I trust, to our graves. Is there a man that can cal- 
culate the value of the Union ? Is there a man that doubts the 
importance of it ? I suppose not. [Cheers.] 

I see around me here the citizens of the State of New Hamp- 
shire. I know, Gentlemen, that you have brought with you, from 
your native State, the love of Free Institutions, the love of Liberty, 
the love of the Union, and of the Constitution of the United 
States. It has been preached to you, though you needed not the 
sermon, it has been told to you again and again. You have heard 
it to-night, long since, and it is not for mc to expatiate upon the 
subject. Is it worth while for us to forget that we belong to 
the fraternity of States ? [He was in favor of relieving New 
Hampshire from the position of a border State.] In conclusion, I 
would give the following sentiment : — 

The Union of the States. — Now and forever inseparable. 

[Prolonged applause.] 

At the conclusion of Mr. Chamberlain's speech, Mr. Webster 
rose and took leave of the assembly in the following impressive 
and eloquent manner : — 

HON. DANIEL WEBSTER'S SPEECH. 

The regular toasts have now been gone through. I have occu- 
pied this Chair as long as it seems to be convenient, and, with a few 
parting words, I propose to resign it to another. 

Gentlemen, departing from the character of particular States, 
leaving, for the present and at last, the agreeable thoughts that 



MR. Webster's speech. 69 

have entertained us, of our own homes and our own origin, it ap- 
pears to me, before we part, that it is not improper that we should 
call to our attention the marked character of the age in which we 
live, and the great part that, in the dispensations of divine Provi- 
dence, we are called upon to act in it. 

To act our part well, as American citizens, as members of 
this great Republic, we must understand that part, and the duties 
which it devolves upon us. We cannot expect to blunder into pro- 
priety, or into greatness of action. We must learn the character of 
the age in which we live, we must learn our own place as a great 
and leading nation in that age, we must learn to appreciate justly 
our own position and character, as belonging to a government of a 
particular form, and we must act, in every case, and upon all sub- 
jects, as becomes our relations. 

Now, Gentlemen, I venture to say, here and everywhere, in the 
face of the Avorld, that there is not on earth any country, at the 
present moment, so interesting as the United States. I do not 
say, no country so strong, so rich, so beautiful, so high or command- 
ing ; but I say no country so interesting, no country that sets such 
an example before the world of self-government, no country around 
which so many hopes and so many fears cluster, no country, in re- 
gard to which the world, with so much earnestness inquires, " What 
will she come to ?" 

I need not say that we are at the head of this continent. Who 
denies that ? Who doubts it ? Here are twenty millions of people, 
free, commercial, and enterprising, beyond example. They are 
spread over an immense territory, and that territory has been 
lately increased, by a vast and an extraordinary addition. The 
country stretches from sea to sea, across the whole breadth of 
North America, and from the tropics to the great Lakes and Rivers 
of the North. 

Forty or fifty years ago, a Boston poet said to his countrymen, 

" No pent lip Utica contracts our powers, 
For the whole boundless continent is ours." 

This was poetic ; but the poetry has been advancing, and is still ad- 
vancing, more and more, to sober truth and reality. 



70 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

But that is not all. Nor is it the most important point. "We 
are brought bj steam, and the improvements attendant upon its dis- 
covery, into the immediate neighborhood of the great powers of Eu- 
rope, living under different forms of Government ; forms in which 
the aristocratic, or the despotic, or the monarchical prevails. And 
the United States, the second commercial country in the world, 
whose intercourse aifects every other country, come into the circle, 
and are become the immediate neighbors of them all. And what 
is expected to be the consequence of this contiguity, this proximity, 
this bringing the Republican practice into the immediate presence of 
despotism, monarchy, and aristocracy ? This is the philosophical 
view, Avhich attracts the attention of the observant part of mankind, 
most strongly, and strikes us with the greatest power. What is 
to be the result ? 

Gentlemen, between us and all the Governments of Europe, 
political power is yet separate. They have their systems, and we 
have ours ; but, then, their and our joint interests approach, and 
sometimes amalgamate. The commercial interests are mingling to- 
gether all over the civilized world. The information of mankind is 
becoming common to all nations, and the general tone of sentiment 
common, in learned circles, and among the masses of intelligent men. 
In matters of science, taste, commerce, in questions of right and 
justice, and matters of judicial administration, we think very much 
alike. But, in regard to the origin of Government, the form of 
Government, and, in some cases, the end and objects of Govern- 
ment, we differ. And yet, it is certain that of all human institu- 
tions, Government is the chief, and by far the most important ; and 
as the Press, at least to a very great extent, in modern times, is free, 
Government, its origin, its forms, its duties, its ends and objects, and 
its practical administration, are everywhere a constant subject of 
discussion. Now that steam has created such a daily intercourse, 
and brought countries so much nearer together, men of one nation 
seem to talk to those of another, on political subjects, as on other 
subjects, almost like inhabitants of the same city, or the same county. 
This is a condition of things, novel and interesting, and worthy of 
our reflection. In National relations, we sustain a rank, we hold a 
certain place, and we have high duties to perform. Of course it is 
our duty to abstain from all interference in the political affairs of other 



MR. WEBSTER'S SPEECH. 71 

nations. But, then, there is one thing, which we are bonncl to do. 
We are bound to show to the whole world, in the midst of Avhich we 
are placed, that a regular, steady, conservative Government, found- 
ed on broad, popular, representative systems, is a practicable thing. 
We are bound to show, that there may be such a Government, not 
merely for a small, but for a great country, in which life and prop- 
erty shall be secure, religion and the worship of the Deity ob- 
served, good morals cultivated, commerce and the arts encouraged, 
and the general prosperity, of all classes, maintained and ad- 
vanced. 

It strikes me, and I repeat the sentiment only to show the strength 
of my own conviction, that our great destiny on earth is, to exhibit 
the practicability of good, safe, secure, popular Governments ; 
to prove, and I hope we do prove, that there may be security for 
property, and for personal rights ; that there may be the mainten- 
ance of religion and morals, that there may be an extensive diffu- 
sion of knowledge, a carrying on of all branches of education to 
their highest pitch, by means of institutions founded on Republican 
principles. The prophesies and the poets are with us. Everybody 
knows Bishop Berkely's lines, written a hundred years ago : 

" There shall be seen another golden age, 
The rise of Empires and of Arts ; 
The good and great inspiring epic rage, 
The wisest heads and noblest hearts." 

" "Westward the course of Empire takes its way ; 
The four first acts already past ; 
A fifth siiall close the drama with the day. 
Time's noblest offspring is the last." 

And, at a more recent period, but, still, when there was nothing to be 
seen in this vast North American Continent but a few colonial settle- 
ments, another English poet suggests, to his country, that she shall 
see a great nation, her own offspring, springing up, with Avcalth, 
and power, and glory, in the New World ; 

" In other lands, another Britain see ; 
And what thou art, America shall be." 

But, in regard to this country, there is no poetry like the poetry 
of events ; and all the prophesies lag behind their fulfilment. 



72 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

That is the doctrine, which you, and I, of America, are bound to 
teach. [Cheers.] Does anybody doubt that, on this broad, popular 
phitfonn, there exists now, in these United States, a safe Govern- 
ment ? Tell me where there is one safer. Or, tell me any on 
the face of the old world on which public faith is more confidently 
reposed. I say the Government of the United States is one of the 
safest. I do not know how long it may be before it will become 
one of the oldest Governments in the world. [Loud applause.] 

We are in an age of progress. That progress is towards self- 
government, by the enlightened portion of the community, every 
Avhere. And a great question is, how this impulse can be carried 
on, without running to excess ; how popular Government can be 
established, without falling into licentiousness. That is the great 
question, and we have seen how difficult it is, by those not taught 
in the school of expei-ience, to establish such a system. 

It is a common sentiment uttered by those who would revolu- 
tionize Europe, that to be free, men have only to ivill it. That is 
a fallacy. There must be prudence and a balancing of departments, 
and there must be persons who will teach the science of free, popu- 
lar governments ; and there are but few, except in this country, 
who can teach that science. [" Hear, hear."] And we have 
arrived at this abiUty by an experience of two hundred years. 
And how has it come ? Why, we are an off-shoot of the British 
Constitution. In that Constitution there is a popular element, that 
is, a representation of the people. This clement is there mixed up 
Avith the monarchical and the aristocratic elements. But our an- 
cestors brought with them no aristocracy, and no monarchial rule, 
except a general submission and allegiance to the Crown of England. 
Their immediate Government was altogether a popular representa- 
tion ; and the country has been thoroughly trained, and schooled, 
in the practice of such a government. 

To abide by the voice of representatives fairly chosen, by 
the edicts of those who make the legislative enactments, has been, 
and is, our only system. And from the first settlement of the 
Colony, at Plymouth, through all our subsequent history, we have 
adhered to this principle. We threw off the power of the King, and 
we never had admitted the power of the Parliament. That was 
John Adams' doctrine. And that is the reason why the Parliament 



MR. Webster's speech. 73 

was not alluded to in the Declaration of Independence. The Colo- 
nies acknowledged the power of the Crown, but never having ac- 
knowledged the authority of the Parliament, they disdained to 
give any reason for throwing it oif. 

When the Revolution severed us from the mother country, then 
we had nothing to do but to go on with our elections, supplying the 
Governors, no longer appointed by the Crown, by our own election, 
thus making the whole Government popular, and to proceed as at 
first ; and that it was which enabled the Colonies of Connecticut and 
Rhode Island, down to a very late period, to continue their ancient 
Constitutions. 

If you look anywhere, beside at France, on the continent of Eu- 
rope, can you find any thing that bears the aspect of a Representa- 
tive Government ? There is nothing. 

It is very difficult to establish a free conservative Government 
for the equal advancement of all the interests of society. What 
has Germany done ; learned Germany, fuller of ancient lore than all 
the world beside ? What has Italy done, what have they done 
w'ho dwell on the spot where Cicero and Justinian lived ? They 
have not the pjower of self-government which a common town-meet- 
ing, with us, possesses. [Applause.] 

Yes, I say, that those persons who have gone from our town-meet- 
ings, to dig gold in California, are more fit to make a Republican 
Government than any body of men in Germany or Italy, because 
they have learned this one great lesson ; that there is no security 
without law, and that, under the circumstances in which they are 
placed, where there is no military authority to cut their throats, \ 
there is no sovereign will but the will of the majority ; that, therefore, 
if they remain, they must submit to that will. 

It is the prevalence of this general sentiment of obedience to 
law, that they must have representatives, and, that if they be fairly 
chosen, their edicts must stand for law; it is the general diffusion of 
this opinion that enables our people everywhere to govern them- 
selves. And, w^here they have our habits, you will find that they 
will establish Government upon the foundation of a free, popular 
Constitution, and nothing else. 

Now, I think, Gentlemen, that while we prescribe no forms, while 
we dictate to nobody, our mission is to show that a constitutional, 
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74 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

representative, conservative Government, founded on the freest pos- 
sible principles, can do, can do, for the advancement of general 
morals and the general prosperity, as much as any other Govern- 
ment can do. This is our business ; this our mission among the 
nations ; and it is a nobler destiny, even, than that Avhich Virgil 
assigns to imperial Rome. 

"Excudent alii spirantia moUiiis ffira, 
Credo equidem ; vivos duccnt de marmore vultus ; 
Orabunt causas melius ; ccclique meatus 
- Dcscribent radio, et surgentia sidera dicent : 

Tu regere imperio jjopulos, Romaiie, memento ; 
Hce, tibi erunt artes, pacisque imponere morem, 
Parcere subjectis, et debellare siiperbos." 

Gentlemen, two things are to be maintained and insisted on. One, 
that men in an enlightened age are capable of self-government ; 
that the enjoyment of equal rights is a practicable thing, and that 
freedom is not a dangerous privilege for a body politic. And the 
other is, that freedom from restraint is not freedom ; that licen- 
tiousness, the discharge from moral duties, and that general scram- 
ble which leads the idle and the extravagant to hope for a time 
when they may put their hands into their neighbors' pockets, call 
it what you please, is tyranny. It is no matter whether an 
Emperor robs his subject of his property, or, whether, under 
the notion of equal rights, the property earned by one shall be 
taken from him by a majority. I would not choose the latter. On 
the contrary, give me a despotism, for I would prefer one tyrant to ten 
thousand. Who would labor, if there were not a security that 
what he earned would be his own, for his own enjoyment, for the 
education of his children, for the support of his age, and the gratifi- 
cation of all his reasonable desires ? 

Gentlemen, the events of the past year are many, and some of 
them most interesting. They seem to result from an indefinite 
purpose of those who wished to ameUorate the condition of things in 
Europe. They had no distinct ideas. There may be incidental 
benefits arising from the scenes of turmoil and of blood ; but no 
general and settled change. These wars may somewhat assuage 
the imperial sway of despots. They may serve to convince those 
who hold despotic power, that they may shake their own thrones, if 



MR. Webster's speech. 75 

they do not yield something to popular demands. In that sense 
some good may come of these events. 

Then, Gentlemen, there is another aspect. We have all had our 
sympathies much enlisted in the Hungarian effort for liberty. We 
have all wept at its failure. We thought we saw a more rational 
hope of establishing Independence in Hungary than in any other 
part of Europe, where the question has been in agitation within the 
last twelve months. But despotic power from abroad intervened to 
suppress that hope. 

And, Gentlemen, what will come of it, I do not know. For my 
part, at this moment, I feel more indignant at recent events con- 
nected with Hungary than at all those which passed in her struggle 
for liberty. [Tremendous cheering.] I see that the Emperor of 
Russia demands of Turkey that the noble Kossuth and his com- 
panions shall be given up, to be dealt with at his pleasure. 
[" Shame ! " " shame ! "] And I see that this demand is made 
in derision of the established law of nations. Gentlemen, there is 
something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The 
lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and the 
earthquake has its power ; but there is something among men more 
capable of shaking despotic thrones than lightning, whirlwind, or 
earthquake, [overpowering outburst of applause ;] that is, the excited 
and aroused indignation of the whole civilized world. [Renewed 
cheers.] Gentlemen, the Emperor of Russia holds himself to be 
bound by the law of nations, from the fact that he negotiates with 
civilized nations, and that he forms alliances and treaties. He pro- 
fesses, in fact, to live in a civilized age, and to govern an enlightened 
nation. I say that if, under these circumstances, he shall perpetrate 
so great a violation of national law, as to seize these Hungarians and 
to execute them, he will stand as a criminal and malefactor in the 
view of the public law of the world. [Loud huzzas continued for 
several minutes.] The Avhole world will be the tribunal to try him, 
and he must appear before it, and hold up his hand, and plead, and 
abide its judgment. [Reiterated cheers.] 

The Emperor of Russia is the supreme law-giver in his own 
country, and, for aught I know, the executor of that law also. 
But, thanks be to God, he is not the supreme law-giver or executor 
of the national law, and every offence against that, is an offence 



76 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

against the rights of the civilized world, ["hear! hear ! !"] and 
if he breaks that law, in the case of Turkey, or any other case, the 
whole world has a right to call him out, and to demand his punish- 
ment. [" True ! true ! ! "] 

Our rights, as a nation, like those of other nations, arc held under 
the sanction of national law ; a law which becomes more important 
from day to day ; a law which none who profess to agree to, are 
at liberty to violate. Nor let him imagine, nor let any one imagine, 
that mere force can subdue the general sentiment of mankind. It 
is much more likely to extend that sentiment, and to destroy the 
power which he most desires to establish and secure. 

Gentlemen, the bones of poor John AVickliffe were dug out of his 
grave, seventy years after his death, and burnt for his heresy ; and 
his ashes were thrown upon a river in Warwickshire. Some 
prophet of that day said : 

" The Avon to the Severn runs, 
The Severn to the sea, 
And Wickliffe's dust shall spread abroad. 
Wide as the waters be." 

Gentlemen, if the blood of Kossuth is taken by an absolute, un- 
qualified, unjustifiable violation of national law, what will it appease, 
what will it pacify ? It will mingle with the earth, it will mix with 
the waters of the ocean, the Avhole civihzed world Avill snuff it in 
the air, and it will return with awful retribution on the heads of 
those violators of national law and universal justice. [Great en- 
thusiasm.] I cannot say when, or in what form ; but depend upon 
it, that if such an act take place, then thrones, and principalities, and 
powers, must look out for the consequences. [Overpowering ap- 
plause.] 

And now. Gentlemen, let us do our part ; let us understand the 
position in which we stand, as the great republic of the world, at 
the most interesting era of the world. Let us consider the mission 
and the destiny which Providence seems to have designed for us, 
and let us so take care of our own conduct, that, with irreproachable 
hearts, and with hands void of offence, we may stand up Avhenever 
and wherever called upon, and with a voice not to be disregarded, 
say, this shall not be done, at least not without our protest. [Mr. 



DR. smith's remarks. 77 

Webster's speech was received with much more than the common 
exhibition of approbation, and, at its close, three times three cheers 
were called for and responded to heartily and unanimously. Mr. 
Webster then retired, the whole company standing while he left the 
Hall.] 

Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, the first Vice President, then took 
the Chair, and remarked as follows : — 

Gentlemen — 

I will not undertake to pass a eulogium upon the distinguished 
individual who has just vacated the Chair ; but I propose for your 
consideration, a sentiment, to which I know you Avill heartily re- 
spond. I give you, 

The President of the Day ! — It required the united wisdom of the Con- 
federacy to frame the Constitution. It was reserved for our native State to 
furnish its ablest Expounder and Defender. 

[Enthusiastic cheers.] 

Dr. J. V. C. Smith being called for, at a very late hour in the even- 
ing, said that he had been indulging a hope that he should not have 
occasion to speak at all, since the assembly was already fatigued. 
He therefore merely referred to the place of his birth, which was 
embraced in the ancient Indian sachemdom of Pickwacket. In- 
cidentally, a reference was made to the interesting historical fact, 
that the cause of sound learning in Massachusetts, to some extent, 
was at one memorable period, sustained by the people of New 
Hampshire. 

Under the presidency of Chauncey, there were various embarrass- 
ments, of a serious nature, at Harvard College. All the efficient 
funds, at a particular time, did not amount to one thousand pounds. 
The political difficulties precluded any expectation of aid from the 
General Court. The liberality of individuals was the only resource 
for a while. A scanty charity, however, was manifested. " In 
this emergency," says the historian of Harvard University, the Hon. 
Josiah Quincy, " the town of Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, first 
extended a helping hand. The inhabitants of that town, in an ad- 
dress to the General Court, dated May, 1GG9, after expressing tlieir 



to NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

thankfulness for the protection extended to them from Massachu- 
setts, and saying, ' that, although they had articled with them for 
exemption from taxes, yet they had never articled with God and 
their own consciences, for exemption from gratitude,' which, while 
they were studying how to demonstrate, the loud groans of the sink- 
ing college came to their ears ; and hoping that their example might 
provoke the rest of the country to a holy emulation in so good a 
work, and the General Court itself, vigorously to act, for diverting 
the omen of calamity, which its destruction would be to New Eng- 
land," declared that a voluntary collection had been made among 
their inhabitants, which authorized the town to pledge the payment 
of " sixty pounds sterling a year, for seven years ensuing, to be im- 
proved by the overseers of the college for the advancement of good 
literature there." 

" This noble example," continues Mr. Quincy, " was not lost on 
Massachusetts. Efficient measures were adopted ; an agent was 
sent to England to raise funds by subscription. These exertions pro- 
duced, in the course of the ensuing year, subscriptions for more than 
three thousand six hundred pounds. By the benevolence, energy, 
and respect for learning, entertained by a few people in New 
Hampshire, an influence Avas diffused abroad, which was of the 
highest importance to the stability of that great and much honored 
institution, the University at Cambridge." 

Dr. Smith closed with the following lines : — 



PICKWACKET. 

PiCKTVACKET, aye, the wildest, roughest place, 

Where Indians, the hardiest of that race, 

Tracked the tall moose, struck dead the wolf and deer 

With feather'd arrow, tomahawk, and spear ; 

Tortur'd their enemies with bui-ning coals, 

And feasted daintily from skulls, for bowls. 

Is changed in aspect now : no savage yells 

Echo on mountain sides or through the dells. 

The peaceful fields are clothed in waving gi-ain, 

Since man 's no longer by the savage slain. 



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No ruin'tl castle rears its lofty head, 
To mark the burial of some mighty dead ; 
No sculptur'd index points the rural way 
Where slaughter'd warriors in their armor lay ; 
But tow'ring granite, reaching to the skies, 
Block pil'd on block, up to a mountain size, 
Shows where the sachem of a giant band 
Poured out his blood for that hard, broken land. 
It was the home of Paugus, fearless, brave. 
Whose last grand effort sent him to the grave ; 
For Chamberlain, New Hampshire's early boast. 
The theme of nurseries and festal toast, 
With sparkling eye, more brilliant than a rocket, 
Sent death to the last chieftain of Pickwacket. 

Then wrapped in a blanket, with a pipe at his side, 

The trusty old queen's-arm, too, that never missed fire — 
He was laid in the earth, — of Pickwacket the pride, 
And the death-wail was sung by a national choir. 
Pickwacket, Pickwacket, how glorious of old, 
When thy yearnings and hardships in legends are told. 

Tall briars thrive around the lonely spot, 
Which no true Indian hunter ere forgot ; 
The pilgrim red man from the western sun. 
Still seeks the mound where lies the royal one, 
Whose out-stretched arm kept back the English foe, 
Till New Hampshire's champion laid him low. 

But civilization, with bonnets and caps. 

And all that belongs to domestic mishaps. 

Has made life as tame as love in a cottage, 

Since beef is preferred to bean-broth and pottage ; 

And the ladies now waltz, where squaws, at their ease, 

Hung up their pappooses in tops of the trees. 

Pickwacket ! — Pickwacket, the land of my birth, — 
There is but one Pickwacket on the whole earth ; 
May the deeds of thy heroes live long in story. 
While dying in battle is thought to be glory. 
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80 ' NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

REMARKS OF HON. EDMUND PARKER, 

OF NASHUA, N. II. 

Mr. President — 

I have been somewhat engaged in the cultivation of fruit, and, 
in connection with this great gathering of persons, who are natives 
of New Hampshire, I have been led to consider that State as a 
great Nursery ; one of the oldest in New England ; and this 
numerous collection of men, as so many seedlings transplanted 
from that nursery, and now cultivated and growing in the soil of 
the Old Bay State. I apprehend quite as much success has 
attended the culture of trees and plants, from this old 7iursery, as 
from any other ; and, with your permission, I will mention a few 
instances. 

Near the centre of the nursery there was a tree o^pecidiar growth. 
The stock Avas good, but the soil did not appear to agree with 
it, and it was removed to another part of the ground. There, 
it did not appear to be in a congenial soil, and it was transplanted 
to Massachusetts, and set out where it had ample room. It 
grew rapidly, and became one of the most magnificent specimens in 
the whole country, and is now admitted, by cultivators, throughout 
the world, to be a iVb/2esu(?7t. (Hon. Daniel Webster.) [Great 
applause.] 

In the southerly part of the nursery, in a hilly location, were 
several trees of pretty fair growth, but not apparently differing 
much from many others. They bore good Apples, but nothing 
particular to distinguish the variety. They were transplanted to 
Massachusetts, grew well, produced fine fruit, and in large quantity, 
and proved to be real Crolden Pippins. (Appletons.) [Cheers.] 

In the same section of the nursery were also found a few 
native stocks, the character of which was not fully developed. 
One of these, although of handsome growth, was, to appearance, 
Wilder than the rest. This was selected and carried to Massa- 
chusetts, where by good cultivation, it has proved to be a real 
3Iagnum Bonum. (Hon. Marshall P. Wilder.) [Cheers.] 

In the northwesterly part of the nursery stood another tree of 
fine robust habit. It bore considerable fruit, but there was some 
dispute respecting the quality. It was at last transplanted to 



THE ladies' petition. . 81 

Massachusetts and turned out to be a genuine BELL-Flower. (Hon. 
JosErii Bell. [Applause,] 

Mr. President, you are in the habit of doing business in tbis 
City by samples. In large transactions, you cannot be particular 
in your examinations of every lot. I must do the same, as there 
is not time to describe all the trees that have been transplanted 
from the old State. I have presented you a few specimens, and 
the whole lot may be warranted equal to these samples, with the 
slight exception, which is made in the sentiment I now offer you : — 

" Trees from the New Ilampsliire Xurscrij, tinder ]\rassacJiusetts Cidlivation — 
Crop, very abundant ; Fruit, generally large and fair, but sometimes a little 
jrritty at the core." 

[Cheers.] 
The following petition was presented by the Chair : — 

PETITION OF THE LADIES OF NEW HAIMPSIIIRE. 

The Ladies of the " Granite State," 
On you with a " petition " wait ; 
They beg, kind friends, to know at least, 
"Why they 're excluded from this feast ? 
We've heard of various replies, 
The real meaning to disguise ; 
One tells us, " 't is no place to go," 
But he 's a bachelor, we know. 
Another says, " no room for ladies. 
Where such a general parade is ; " 
But then, we women quickly scan, 
This comes from some grave married man. 
And yet another, would exclude 
Both wine and women at his food ; 
As if the two witli sin were marr'd, 
And from this feast should be debari-'d ! 
But he who advocates this plan, 
3Ii(st be an ultra temperance man. 
And then we '11 mention other croakers, 
Who sometimes pass as " witty jokers ; " 
These, of our presence, would complain, 
Lest we some jolly wit restrain. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Perhaps our friends all may not know, 
Why this exclusiveness you show ; 
And so I '11 tell an anecdote, 
Which led to passing such a vote. 
New Hampshire has a famous college, 
Where many " natives " gain'd their knowledge ; 
And once a dancing-master came, 
Who set the students in a flame. 
'T is true they knew the art complete, 
Of "shuffling" in the students seat; 
But more of ease and grace, they thought, 
Might "scientifically" be taught. 
So a " petition " was demanded. 
And to the Government soon handed, 
Stating the students fain would know, 
If they might be allow'd to go. 

The " Faculty" were strongly mov'd, 

Since none of dancing then approv'd ; 

They weigh'd the matter ; thought again ; 

In no set terms would they complain, 

Each hesitating to bring in 

That dancing was a " heinous " sin. 

And so they drew a grave " Report," 

Which made just then no little sport; 
" Young men," quoth Prof. — (the learned gent,) 
" Since you on dancing seem intent. 

With this proviso, we will grant 

The privilege you so much want ; 

But we exclude, by this new rule, 

Ladies and music, from the school ! " 

And so we've furnish' d the reply. 
Why you our presence thus deny ; 
To exclude us, was taught in college. 
With more of the same kind of knowledge. 
But let it pass ; we love a joke, 
And on this head no more Avould croak ; 
We 're only glad so wise you 've been, 
This day, to let the music in ! 



DR. durkee's speech. 83 



SPEECH OF DR. SILAS DURKEE. 

3Ir. President — 

I cannot allow this fraternal meeting to pass away without en- 
deavoring to contribute my mite to the interest of the occasion, for 
I was, born among the granite mountains. My grandfather re- 
moved from Lebanon Crank, in Connecticut, to the town of Hano- 
ver, about the time the elder Wheelock did, nearly one hundred 
years ago. Peradventure the equipage for his journey consisted 
of a good yoke of oxen and a new cart, which, I suppose, contained 
the ark of all his hopes. He was one of the men who assisted in 
preparing the timbers for the first edifice of Dartmouth College. 
At the time my father was fitting for College, the Revolutionary 
War prevailed, and seemed to demand his services ; and he relin- 
quished the idea of a College life, and entered the American army 
at the. age of seventeen years. He continued in the discharge of 
his duties, as a private soldier, until the surrender of Burgoyne. In 
due time, he returned again to Hanover, where he settled and spent 
the rest of his life. He died about three years ago, at the age of 
eighty-five. And now that he has gone hence, allow me to say, in 
filial remembrance of him, that the spirit of '76, which sprang up 
in his youthful breast, continued to glow with unabated ardor to 
the last conscious hour of his existence. [" Hear, hear."] 

Among my earliest recollections, I remember that my father was 
accustomed to impress upon the minds of his ^children, that the 
Wheelocks were among the most learned and worthy men that ever 
lived in New England ; that the College was one of the best extant ; 
and that the students who graduated there, turned out to be the 
greatest divines, and the greatest lawyers, and judges, and states- 
men in America ; and that New Hampshire, take it all in all, was 
one of the best States among the whole oi-iginal thirteen. And I 
am happy to say, Mr. President, that time and observation have 
confirmed to my mind the general truth of these opinions. [Ap- 
plause.] 

New Hampshire, it is true, has got a hard name in consequence 
of the bold and rugged contour of her geographical features ; but 
those mountains that uplift their naked heads among the clouds, 



84 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

and display a grandeur and sublimity unequalled on this continent, 
contribute to the formation of a durable soil ; and her queen of 
lakes, adorned with more than three hundred islands, resting like 
so many gems upon its tranquil bosom, is unsurpassed in beauty, 
and has, at last, been converted into a channel of commercial enter- 
prise and activity. 

Nor must we forget her snow banks, with their perpetual charter, 
and their unfailing annual dividends, distributed, like the celestial 
manna, before every man's door, and upon every field and forest, 
and designed, like that, for the sustenance of life. It may be 
thought that I use the language of hyperbole in attributing such 
virtues to the snow banks of New Hampshire. Perhaps I do: 
nevertheless, I must say that, in my opinion, they are the best 
banks that State ever had, for they can always be depended upon, 
and they are always ready to discount. [Cheers.] 

And then the climate ! Cold, and bleak, and capricious as it is, 
yet, in regard to salubrity, it may safely challenge a comparison 
with any other on the face of the earth. And " the Old Man 
of the Mountain," with his sedate profile, may be looked upon 
as an apt symbol of the longevity of the neighboring population. 
Indeed, the bills of mortality for the famous town of Franconia, 
show that, for length of life granted to its inhabitants, it is a notch 
higher than any other town in New England. That mysterious 
disease, which, like the besom of destruction, has just finished its 
career through the land for the second time, has never touched 
the borders of the> Granite State with its desolating wing. [" True ! 
trae ! "] 

But the capabiUties of New Hampshire, like those of every other 
district of country, to support life, and to provide for the wants of 
an increasing population, have their limits ; and I dare say that if 
none of her people had ever emigrated, she would have had 
upon her a burden greater than she could have borne. Some of 
them might have been exposed upon the sterile mountains, and 
might have been compelled to embrace the very rocks for want of 
a shelter, and to cut up juniper roots for meat. And thus it may 
be said with truth, that we quit our country for our country's 
good, as well as for our own; quod end demonstrandum, Mr. 
President. 



DR. durkee's speech. 85 

I have spoken of the healthfulness of the climate ; but we could 
not live on air alone, and we came here that we might get some ot 
the clams and codfish of Massachusetts Bay ; we came, not that 
we loved New Hampshire less, but the Bay State more. [Ap- 
plause.] 

Captain John Smith was doubtless a man of large comprehension 
and forecast ; and when he survej^ed New Hampshire in 1614, or 
thereabouts, he probably intended it as a nursery to Massachusetts, 
and designed that a portion of its increase should, from time to 
time, be transplanted into Massachusetts soil ; and, therefore, it is 
that instead of now occupying the granite hills, we find ourselves 
dwellers in and about this goodly tri-mountain city. New Hamp- 
shire was once a part and parcel of Massachusetts, bone of her 
bone, and flesh of her flesh ; so that, in removing from New Hamp- 
shire to Massachusetts, we have merely left our mother, (we have 
left her in good hands, Mr. President,) and we have come here to 
help take care of our grandmother, and to have her help take care 
of us. [Great applause.] 

Before closing, I desire to give expression to the gratitude I feel 
towards the chief Executive of the city for his presence, and his 
speech on this occasion. ^Ye cannot but appreciate the noble and 
generous sentiments to which he has given utterance in regard to 
the State that gave us birth ; and, I am sure he will find, in the 
sons of his adoption from that State, a constant readiness to co-ope- 
rate with him in the promotion of every work which shall serve to 
perpetuate to this city of the Pilgrims the savor of a good name, 
until men, and States, and cities shall cease to be. [" Hear ! 
hear!!"] 

A sentiment in behalf of New Hampshire and I have done. 

Our Native State. — From Strawberry Bank, on the Piscataqna, to her family 
of mountains in the Upper Coos : Coeval with these emblems of her stability, 
be the honor which her sons shall ever delight to bestow upon her. 

[Cheers.] 



86- NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 



REMARKS OF FREDERICK EMERSON. 

At this late hour, Mr. President, I will not venture upon any 
such extent of remarks, as might be called a speech. I came. Sir, 
from Timber-lane, now the town of Hampstead. Perhaps the 
original name arose from the fact, that the place produced tall trees 
and tall boys ; [ laughter. Mr. Emerson is about six feet two ;] 
just opposite the place where Dr. Smith came from. [Applause.] 
It was there a very common course of business, for a young man, to 
break a colt, own a horse, and keep a school. I early engaged to 
do the latter. 

[Mr. Emerson proceeded to tell an amusing story, of passing 
through Chester, to go eighteen miles over a turnpike in the woods, 
on a moonlight night, to keep his engagement for the commencement 
of a school. When about half way, he broke a stirrup and got un- 
horsed. After refitting and remounting, he unwittingly took a back 
track, and, towards morning, much to his surprise, reached the village 
of Chester, from which he had started the evening before. After de- 
tailing the story, Mr. Emerson concluded his remarks as follows:] 

But, Mr. President, the occasion on which we have met, brings 
up to the mind other scenes, and other events, than those which 
are merely amusing or ludicrous. We have, this evening, together, 
turned our eyes back upon the places that knew us in our infancy 
and youth. To us. New Hampshire presents something other than 
her Crranite Hills; yes, Sir, and something more interesting even, 
than the grassy vales, or the pearly brooks, or the silvery water- 
sheets, that ai'e associated with the pastime of our early days. 
Dearer to us still, than the imagery of those bright scenes, is the 
memory of the friends that we first loved ; those who nurtured us 
in infancy, who guided us in youth, who opened to us the avenues 
of knowledge, who warned us of the miseries of vice, and presented 
to us the inducements of virtue, and who made us what we are. 
Perhaps they still live, to greet our occasional returns to the paternal 
home ; or, perhaps we have been called to commit them to the 
silent bosom of the earth. Be that as it may, our relation to them 
is sacred, and while the power of thought shall endure, the memoi-y 
of their kindness will abide. 



MR. KENT'S POEM. 87 



"TILE OLD GRANITE STATE." 

BY GEOKGE KENT. 



"When our old State was new, 

Now, some two hundred years. 
The people were but few. 

As by story plain appears ; 
But the folks were real gritty, 

As all our records show ; 
Though they'd neither town nor city 

Two hundred years ago. 

Their rocks were truest granite. 

Their hills of mountain size, 
The soil, none nobler man it 

Beneath more genial skies ; 
The red man soon knock'd under, 

And the knocking was n't slow, 
It was real Yankee thunder 

Two hundred years ago. 

The moose brows'd o'er the mountain. 

The wolf prowl'd through the dell. 
The wild deer sought the fountain. 

And the bear his wintry cell; 
The salmon leap'd the water-fall, 

And, with shad, were " all the go ; " 
So plenty, that they'd come at call 

Two hundred years ago. 

The times have strangely alter'd. 

Since our history began. 
But Old Time has never falter'd 

In re-producing man ; 
And the product has been glorious, 

As every age will show ; 
Though things were less uproarious 

Two hundred years ago. 
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88 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

We 'd then no Constitution, 

To call for our defence ; 
But our sires had resolution, 

And good, plain, common sense. 
Our "expounders" were X pounders, 

When our fathers met the foe, 
Their sons ne'er shame the founders 

Of two hundred years ago. 

Smith was the first discoverer. 

And his christian name was John ; 
"A few more left" still hover here, 

And the race goes bravely on. 
But be the names whate'er they may 

Our chronicles can show, 
Our heraldry began its day 

Two hundred years ago. 

We ask no kingly title, 

Nor royal pomp or fame ; 
We 're Granite freemen^ spite all 

Our humbleness of name ; 
For names arc breath, and whether styl'd 

Jack, Jonathan, or Joe, 
We've grown to manhood, from the child 

Two hundred years ago. 

We'd true New England mothers, 

To give us a fair start. 
Who'd compare with any others 

In the skill to make us smart. 
With our fathers we '11 not quarrel ; 

As to pa^ we're not below ; 
Though the birch usurped the laurel 

Two hundred years ago. 

We might talk of our Sullivans, 

Our Wentworths, Weares, and Starks, 

With the diamond point of honor's pen 
Grave deep our Granite marks; 



MR. Kent's poem. 89 

Of ]\rcClary, Colburn, Cilley, 

With Reed and Bellows we might blow, 
And might Miller and McNiel ye, 

Since two hundred years ago. 

Of Smiths, Waldrons, "Wingates, tell. 

Cutis, Walkers, Thorntons, count. 
Our Gilmans, Langdons, Bartletts, swell, 

With Hales, the fair amount ; 
Our Websters fam'd beyond all praise. 

Our Bells, who 'd not ring slow, 
Cass, Dearborns, Woodbuiy, since the days 

Two hundred years ago. 

Well rul'd has been New Hampsliire 

By Governors of State ; 
With others nam'd, of natives 

We prize at no mean rate, 
Are Morril, Harvey, Badger, 

Page, Hubbard, Colby, too. 
And Dinsmoors, of true modest Avorth, 

Since our old State was new. 

But away with all this pother, 

As brilliant as they beam, 
Our kind though Granite mother 

Sends forth a constant stream ; 
A good State for departure. 

First rate in which to grow. 
She commenced a glorious starter 

Two hundi'ed years ago. 

The ball is still in motion, 

The car on railroad track. 
And w^e cherish a cute notion 

That no train will put us back ; 
But, where'er our lot be cast, 

Affection is not slow 
Proudly to look through all her past, 

Two hundred years ago. 



90 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

When our old State was new, 

Our learning was but small, 
With the masters very few, 

And scarce mistresses at all ; 
" Young ideas " were taught " to shoot " 

But at Indians, bears, and so, 
With little foretaste of such fruit 

Two hundred years ago. 

For now our schools are plenty, 

Our learning quite profound. 
And, before we're one-and-twenty, 

We have almost run aground; 
Into Hebrew roots and particles 

With no distrust we go, 
And amaze, with the Greek articles^ 

Two hundred years ago. 

We have now a thrifty College, 

Sprung from an Indian School, 
Where every branch of knowledge 

Is taught by line and rule ; 
It well is JLord-ed over. 

With Professors quite a row. 
And scholars thick as clover, 

Since two hundred years ago. 

In retrospect we see 

Brown's manly mien and form, 
In aspect mild, with energy, 

Presiding o'er the storm. 
Our peaceful times present 

A fair array to view ; 
Haddock, Chase, Crosby, Sanborn, Young, 

Since our old State was new. 

When our old State was new, 
Some magic charms wex'e known, 

Of witches we 'd a few. 

Their power long since o'erthrown; 



MR. Kent's poem. 91 

"We still have incantations, 

"Which into song they throw, 
And more witching conjurations 

Than two hundred years ago. 

Our Hutchinsons and Bakers, 

Our Rogers's and so, 
Might make demurest Quakers 

Trip on fantastic toe ; 
Their strains are sweetest melody, 

Their songs to nature true, 
No such enchantment rul'd the hour 

When our old State was new. 

To help along the magic, 

And scatter it world-wide, 
For the man most instrumental 

We needn't turn aside; 
Nor be chaffering and dickering 

To point him out to view, 
For we boast but of one Chickering, 

Since our old State was new. 

The prophet-smitten rock 

Yielded a flowing stream, 
From Granite rocks, if rightly struck, 

" A muse of fire " will beam ; 
The art divine of poetry 

Has votaries not a few. 
Granite nor ice could circumscribe. 

Since our old State was new. 

With one of our fair Fields 

No favor need we claim, 
We 're Hale enough, in goodly song, 

To sound our trump of fame ; 
With Wilcox, Carter, Fessenden, 

Our Peabodys we '11 show. 
Stark, Fox, French, Barnes, and Daniels, since 

Two hundred years ago. 



92 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Nor, of writers, will our Rogers, 

Neal or Kelly, be forgot, 
Nor our Haven's " English undefiled," 

No line he 'd, dying, blot ; 
Nor Kittredge, " Temperance pioneer," 

Plumer, to letters true. 
Nor Knapp and others, earlier fam'd, 

Since our old State was new. 

"While proudly thus inclined 

Our " Granite State " to show. 
Our Carrigain comes fresh to mind. 

To whom the name we owe ; 
Nor from memory will our authors, 

Upham, Hale, be lost to view, 
Moore, Barstow, Adams, Emersons, 

Since our old State was new. 

When our old State was new, 

The human face divine 
Was pictur'd out in profile cuts, 

Lampblack or charcoal line; 
A prima facie case 

Was scarce shown up to view, 
Of likeness fair, of man or beast, 

When our old State was new. 

To face the fairest forms 

Our Hoit now needn't fear. 
Nor Champney yield the palm to aught 

In panoramic sphere; 
No underwriting now we need. 

The thing designed to show. 
Our pictures speak, in lines untraced 

Two hundred yeai's ago. 

When our old State was new, 
No Railroads then were seen, 

Of rail-rides there were few. 
Though light esteem'd, I ween; 



MR. KENT'S POEM. 93 

But now we 'steam them high, 

The roads, not rides, I trow, 
To rearward leave, without a sigh, 

Two hundred years ago. 

When our old State was new, ' 

Where water-falls abound. 
Few wheels, save Time's, to view, 

Went glibly rolling round ; 
The distaff and the spinning wheel 

Their handiwork could show, 
But no Factory's majestic reel, 

Two hundred years ago. 

Now, villages abound, 

And cities spi-ing to view. 
Where scarce the advent'rous Indian 

Paddled his light canoe ; 
Huge palaces are teeming 

With bustle, life, and show, 
And " the tallest kind " of steaming, 

Since two hundred years ago. 

Our Commerce, small at best. 

Has grown with fair increase, 
No nobler j^lace of rest 

Opens her port of peace; 
Her white-wing'd sails outspreading, 

She stems old Ocean's flow. 
With no wintry pilgrim-dreading 

Of two hundred years ago. 

With Havens, such as Portsmouth, 

Gutters, and Ladds to reef. 
She well might Ocean's Good-win, 

And be pronounc'd cap-S/ieafe ; 
With Rices, Rollins, Jenness's, 

Coues, Uphams she could show, 
Honoring, in slow but solid growth. 

Two hundred years ago. 



94 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Our farming lias grown ranker 

Than any other craft, 
With Nature for a banker, 

To honor every draft; 
Whate'er turns up, his free soil yields 

The Farmer a rich flow 
Of blessings, vouch'd to cultur'd fields 

Two hundred years ago. 

No Banks were once the rage, 

Save banks of new-found-land ; 
'T was then the iron age, 

With no spare cash in hand ; 
'T is now the age of promise, 

As current bills will show, 
We'd no such ready commerce 

Two hundred years ago. 

No Merchants once abounded 

With foreign fashions rare, 
Then every lady's gown did 

A homespun semblance wear ; 
But now we're grown so topping, 

Expos'd so much to view. 
Our ladies have learn'd shopping, 

Since our old State was new. 

If ladies must go shopping. 

And have their own sweet wills, 
We can't oppose their stopping 

And dealing fair at Hill's ; 
If any rather choose 

A place of little show, 
Few goods were found like Molineux's 

Two hundred years ago. 

We here have first-rate merchants, 
Of good New Hampshire stock, 

Our Appletons are truest chips 
Of the old Granite block ; 



MR. Kent's poem. 95 

We've some who tempt the raging main, 

Whose ships are never sk)w, 
And things are in a better Train 

Than two hundred years ago. 

None have the fairer Means., 

Fitted for any age ; 
Though Wilde)' grown in bold emprise, 

We learn from every Paige. 
If, to account for our success, 

Conjecture should be slow, 
We'll point to scions from the germ 

Two hundred years ago. 

When our old State was new 

Taverns were somewhat rude, 
In number far between and few, 

And scant of rest and food ; 
Tavern was kept, and nothing else, 

As travellers well know, 
The inns were outs, with sky in view, 

Two hundred years ago. 

Of our Inns we now are proud, 

For they lead us to compare 
The gorgeousness of present days 

With past things as they were ; 
Our Stevens, Watson, Chamberlain, 

A thing or two could show, 
Gage, Russell, Crockett, wonder raise 

Two hundred years ago. 

Of Architects of fame. 

Whose praise may well be sung. 
New Hampshire sure may claim 

A veteran, though Yoidkj ; 
Green Mountains, and the Bay State, 

His works in granite sliow. 
Eclipsing lordly castles 

Two hundred years ago, 
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96 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Not forgotten are our "VVashburns, 

Neal nor Bryant out of mind, 
In Smith, Crooker, Marshall, Abell, 

We the builder's genius find ; 
Some may lead us to Revere, 

All the artisan can show, 
And astonish all the natives 

Two hundi'ed years ago. 

Some folks now steam it high, 

And burst in time their boiler, 
Their very steam and water-works 

Become the veriest riler ; 
Our Walworth fits you to a T, 

With engines high and low. 
And apparatus, never dream'd 

Two hundred years ago. 

Our hats were scarcely felt. 

Or only coarsest nap. 
Save when a hapless beaver 

Got snar'd in hunter's trap ; 
But castors now, of comeliest kind, 

Shute, Leavitt, Cook, can show, 
Towne, Kendrick, which you 'd never find 

Two hundred years ago. 

Cordwainers once were cobblers. 

In " times that tried men's so2ils" 
Such name could not last always, 

As the car of progress rolls ; 
So, with better understanding 

Of cdl their ends in view, 
They now are " Fashion's boot-makers," 

Since our old State was new. 

Hair-dressers were but barbers. 
Or perruquiers, though smart. 

They now are styl'd " Professors 
Of the tonsorial art." 



MR. Kent's poem. 97 

Less skill 's requir'd than was of yore, 

As modern heads will show, 
Our grand sires were " hairs slicker " 

Two hundred years ago. 

No Printers once were seen ; 

The only "black art" known 
Was witches' cabalistic mien, 

And wizards' croaking moan; 
The column now runs over, 

With cases fair to view 
Where Typos live in clover, 

Since our old State was new. 

While few are fortune's reapers. 

And many closely jrress'd, 
Our Greene ones, and our Sleepers, 

Would seem most richly blest ; 
A Greeley has his competence, 

And Boylston, coins a few, 
And Kendall, lots of picayunes, 

Since our old State was new. 

Of first-rate Book establishments, 

New Hampsliire proudly yields. 
Our taste is doubly gratified 

In Ticknor, Reed, and Fields ; 
We've Wilkins, Crosby, Whittemore, 

French, Brodhead, Dow «& Co., 
With Tewksbury, our minds to store. 

Since two hundred years ago. 

No Lawyers once were known, 

For strife had not begun. 
Years saw the same dull tone, 

While there was scarcely one ; 
Hundreds now make their entry, 

"John Doe and Richard Roe," 
With cause of quarrels plenty, 

Since two hundred years ago. 



98 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Our Livermores and Richardsons, 

Our Parkers, Olcotts, West, 
Steeles, Gordon, Atkinsons, with scores, 

Tedious to be express'd ; 
Our Farrars, Pierces, Athertons, 

Vose, Wilsons, Parleys, too. 
With others nam'd, adorn the law, 

Since our old State was new. 

As further ground of boasting. 

The thing is very plain. 
We've furnish'd Clifford, AVells, Kent, Orr, 

All good men, in the Maine ; 
AVith Emery, Kelleys, Smith, McGaws, 

Hodgdon, Hunton, and Rowe, 
And others keen and Cutting, since 

Two hundred years ago. 

To the great Empire State, 

If any will remark her. 
We've furnish'd Robinson and Haines, 

Aiid Gardiner and Barker ; 
Dix, Patterson, and Wheeler, 

Walker and Kimball, too. 
With Willard, Storrs, McConihe, 

Since our old State was new. 

Nearer at hand w-e look, 

But hardly dare to name, 
And see enroll'd, on Boston book, 

Many well known to fame ; 
The gift of tongues they surely have, 

To use them are not slow. 
Are here to answer, not so those 

Two hundred years ago. 

No Doctors once gave physic. 
As now the doctor's trade is, 

Then gout, and rheum, and phthisic. 
Were cur'd by good old ladies; 



MR. Kent's poem. 99 

We 've now M.D.'s abundant, 

AVith work enough to do, 
And potions most redundant, 

Since our old State was new. 

Wliat matters some are fussy. 

And voted quite a bore ? 
While we, Twitchell, Smiths and Mussey, 

And many Doctors 3Ioore, 
With Kimball, Peaslee, Crosbys, 

Gould, Durkee, Upham, show, 
Life-insurance is far cheaper 

Than two hundred years ago. 

Of our Clergy we are boastful, 

For their learning, worth, and parts. 
In their ranks there is a host full 

Of true and manly hearts ; 
We had Buckminster and Appleton, 

Still have Peabody and Stow, 
Had Payson, Woods, and Worcesters, 

Since two hundred years ago. 

Past days we set our face on 

In Eaton's upright mien, 
Both in Abbot and in Mason, 

Might an honor'd sire be seen; 
Our Churches stand aspiring, 

AVhere conventicles stood low, 
Our souls with zeal scarce firing 

Of two hundred years ago. 

Still, better times are coming, 

And are hastening every year, 
When, with Industry's full humming. 

Rich Plenty shall appear; 
When Slavery shall be ended. 

The oppressor's power brought low, 
And old errors be amended 

Of two hundred years ago. 



100 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

When Eeligion shall be founded 

In peace, and truth, and love, 
And every platform grounded 

On Wisdom from above ; 
When the tidings of salvation 

Through every land shall flow, 
The triumph of our fathers' faith 

Two hundred years ago. 

Sons of the Granite border, 

In a glorious sister State, 
Here institute an Order, 

Time shall commemorate, 
Of Brothers link'd in union 

To New Hampshire's weal or woe. 
Worthy our Sires' communion 

Two hundred years ago. 



SENTIMENTS. 



By a Guest : 

Neto Hampshire ! — The valoi* of her sons in War ; her Miller and McNiel 
inscribed it with their swords on the enduring column of her Military fame, 
at the hard-fought fields of Chippewa, Lundy's Lane, and Erie. 

The following is Gen. McNiel's reply : — 

Mr. President and Felloio Citizens — 

I cannot, in ivords, respond to the sentiment so personally com- 
plimentary to myself; and, I am constrained to confess my utter 
inability to express, in becoming terms, my gratitude for the honora- 
ble notice you have been pleased to extend towards me. 

"While I leave it to other and abler tongues, to speak of the civil 
fame of our native State, it will be permitted to me to advert to 
the valor of her sons, who, I am proud to say, have trod with me 
the fields of War, and who contributed to preserve that reputation 
for military prowess, which she gained in the days of the Revolu- 
tion. To the brave sons of New Hampshire, whom I had the for- 
tune to command in the second War for Independence, belongs the 
merit which is but too often bestowed upon their leaders. My own 
experience has taught me, that New Hampshire troops are unsur- 
passed in the field for valor and patriotism, and, I may add, for that 
enduring courage, without which the bravest of leaders could rarely 
succeed. If, with such men, victory perched on our banners, to 
them is due the glory of deeds, which leaders could not have 
achieved without the moral inspiration of their followers ; and let 
me say that, a New Hampshire soldier, with the watchword of 
Stark in his ear, will follow where any dares to lead. 



102 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

If, Fellow Citizens, I rendered in other days any service to my 
country in the hour of her peril, I can only say, that I endeavored 
to do my duty, and the consciousness of the act bears its recom- 
pense along with it. I thank you, citizens of my native State, for 
your kindly notice of me, on this occasion of common union, broth- 
erhood, and spirit. Permit me to propose : 

New Hampshire ! — ]\Iay her sons, wherever they may be, transfuse their at- 
tachment to their native State into the common store of American patriotism ; 
they will not love New Hampshire less, because they love the Union more. 

By Isaac Parker, of Boston : 

Our good Mother, Massachusetts ! — She is a pattern for all step-!Mothers and 
foster-Mothers. She makes no difference between her own children, and the 
children of her adoption. 

By Jonas Chickering ; 

The City of Boston ! — The great work-shop where the sons of New Hamp- 
shire come to serve their Apprenticeship, and, in serving, make themselves so 
useful that thej' are all admitted partners of the concern. 

By Mr. Batchelder : 

New Hampshire and California ! — One furnishing the country and the world 
with Mines of Gold ; the other with Golden Minds. 

By George Kent: 

A Free Press ! — The grand lattery which justifies its form to the world, 
and gives good proof of its work, in its columns of defence of the citadel of 
Liberty. 

By Hon. John H. Wilkins : 

The City of Boston! — Liberal in principle, generous in practice. Though 
sons of New Hampshire, we will not be out-done by her native children, in the 
watchfulness with which we will guard her honor, or the zeal and industry with 
which we will labor for her welfare. 

By Dr. J. V. C. Smith : 

The Memory of our hardy, brave, imhistrious Ancestors ! — They introduced 
civilization, subdued the forests, and unbound the sterile soil of New Hampshire. 
May we imitate their virtues, honesty, and patriotism, that we may live as they 
did, respected, that we may die like them, lamented. 



MRS. hale's poem. 103 



By David Bryant : 



The Daughters of New Hampshire ! — Pretty and affable companions, loving 
and frugal wives, careful and intelligent mothers, courteous and sedate matrons. 

By Rev. Dr. Baron Stow : 

Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale ! — A gem from the primitive rock of our na- 
tive State, worthily set in the coronet of a Nation's literature. 

The Association was favored with the following Lines by Mrs. 
Sarah J. Hale. 

OUR GRANITE HILLS. 

"thanks be to god for the moontaiss." 

What glowing thoughts, what glorious themes 

To mountain tops belong ! 
The Law, from Sinai's summit came, 

From Sion, sacred song : 
And Genius on Parnassian heights 

His banner first unfurled ; 
And from the seven-hilled City waved 
The sword that swayed the world. 

Then let us raise the hymn of praise, 

To us the hills were given ; 

And mountain-tops are altars set 

To lift the soul to heaven ! 

Though Europe's plains are crushed with chains, 

As every tyrant wills, 
Yet freedom's light is flashing bright 

Along Helvetia's Hills ; 
And should our eagle stoop his wing 

O'er prairie, plain, or sea. 
Mount Washington an eyry holds 
Of deathless Liberty ! 

Then let us raise the song of praise, 

To us the heights were given. 
Our Granite Hills are Altars still 

To lift our hopes to Heaven. 
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104 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Bj Dr. Stone : 

New Hampshire's Produciive Power ! — England boasts of lier flourisliing 
gardens, and our Southern States are proud of their extensive plantations ; 
but we have cultivated Fields superior to them all. 

Loud calls being made for jMr. Fields from all parts of the Hall, 
he responded as follows : — 

POEM BY JA]MES T. FIELDS. 

Mr. President — 

I must beg an excuse, Sir, from making a speecli ; 

As to handing round toasts, that 's quite out of my reach ; 

A slight knack at rhyming, a few hints of verse. 

That were picked up in boyhood, (1 might have done worse,) 

Have served me on other occasions to shirk, 

As we say in New Hampshire, the much heavier work ; 

So, if you 'II release me and not call it treason, 

I '11 pay you in rhyme what I should pay in 7-eason. 



I was hunting last night, as I sat down to play 

With the shuttle of verse, the right theme for to-day : 

And as I was musing in almost despair, 

I felt a sharp tug at the roots of ray hair, — 

When a bright little figure sprang into the air, 

Shook his wings for an instant, then circled around, 

And alighted at once snug, and tight, on the ground. 

Oh, could you have seen him, his eyes and his nose, 
" The rings on his fingers, the bells on his toes," 
His little red breeches, the wig on his head, 
And the corpulent shape that endorsed him well fed, 
I think you 'd have stai'ed, and requested like me 
A reply from the sprite what his business might be. 

" Kind Sir," I began, "I must sure owe you one. 
Your face ne'er before have I seen 'neath the sun. 
And a quainter old chap, take you now all in all, 
Has not honored my roof since the flood with a call." 



MR. fields' poem. 105 

" Hold your tongue," cried ray visitor, winking his eyes, 

"I don't come to Boston to show off my size ; 

I am here, Sir, on business, know what I 'm about, 

And my mother 's apprized that her offspring is out : 

So if you '11 just listen, and not be so green, 

I '11 be brief as the ride now to Concord or Keene ; 

I will not be so long, nay, not half of the time. 

As up my friend Wilson, the sun takes to climb ; 

I am straight from New Hampshire, her children to meet, 

Who run up in our parts, by the acre, not feet ; 

And your notable Boston boys never will grow. 

Till they sprout near the hills where the tall rivers flow. 

Who am I, you ask ? and you do not know me ? 

Turn me round, I 'm the ' man in the moon ' as you see ; 

I got off at Mount Washington, none of your jokes, 

To attend the great meeting of New Hampshire folks ; 

I 've come down to Boston to join in the fun. 

And I can't get a ticket because I 'm no ' Son.' 

I've long loved your valleys, I know all your rills, 

I 've travelled whole nights o'er the tops of your hills, 

I 've bathed in the Basin, I 've sailed down the Flume, 

I 've run up the Cascade, and I 've retipped its plume ; 

I 've dwelt in the Notch, I 've explored every fountain. 

And my brother himself is the Old Man of the Mountain ; 

And now when I beg for a chance at your dinner, 

You call me ' outsider ' and vote me a sinner ; 

'T is a case clear as moonlight that /ought to go, 

For I 've lived 7iear New Hampshire long ages or so." 

" It is no use to talk then," I quickly exclaimed, 
" If the soil you were born on is not the far-famed ; 
Vermonters by dozens stand by to declare 
That they drew their first breath in our New Hampshire air ; 
While Maine sends her hundreds to call for a place, 
Which only belongs to the White Mountain face ; 
No ! for States near or distant we ' do n't care a pin,' 
Allow me to say, Sir, yoii cannot come in." 

Then the little old gentleman wiped off a tear, 

And his mouth opened wide like a gash from each ear, 



106 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

And he said, with a sigh, as he looked rather blue, 

" Here 's a song I 'd have sung if I 'd gone in with you ; 

'T is in praise of the maidens you left far away, 

In the homes of your childhood, the haunts of your play ; 

'T is a song of your mothers, whose hearts linger here, 

Though their children forget them, they always are dear ; " 

So listen, kind friends, to the verses he gave. 

As he swept from my sight like the foam on the wave. 

See how yon smiling sisters stand 

To greet the sons who roam ; 
Each daughter waves her snowy hand 

To give the " welcome home ! " 
See how they form, with lips and eyes, 

Hope's radiant band of pearls ; 
Match if you can beneath the skies, 

Our dear New Hampshire girls ! 

What though the autumn rain drops freeze, 

Where those we love were born ? 
They win their beauty from the breeze, 

Their vigor from the morn ! 
The tempest round their dwellings shout, 

And howls November's storm, — 
For us their fires are never out, 

Whose hearts are always warm. 

Go forth, poor exiled youth, away. 

Where other maidens dwell ! 
Come back, when all your locks are gray, 

To those you loved so well ! 
Come back, though Time has left you poor, 

And all your sands have run, — 
There stands your mother at the door, 

To clasp her darling son. \ 

God bless the troop whose nightly prayers 

Rise up for those who roam ! 
God bless them, 'mid their daily cares, — 

Those guardian saints of home ! 



MR. Abbott's remarks. 107 

Forget not then to mingle here, 

With wit and song your pearls, — 
And give the swelling heart's full cheer 

For our New Hampshire girls ! 

KEMARKS OF JAIklES A. ABBOTT. 

James A. Abbott, Esq., next being called upon, arose and said : 

That the evening had so far advanced, that he did not suppose 
it a part of his duty, or that he was expected, to address the assem- 
bly. A more glorious day for the Sons of New Hampshire had never 
been witnessed or enjoyed. It is a day long to be remembered and 
cherished, especially so, since we have listened to the voice of him, 
whose memory, in after days, will be respected and honored, and 
whose fame will have for itself a monument in the hearts of the Sons 
of New Hampshire, as perpetual as that monument on yonder height, 
which there stands in remembrance of the patriotism of the States. 

It is quite enough. Sir, that we have gathered together here, 
under such bright auspices, in such complete numbers, and for such 
noble purposes. It is enough, that we have lived to hear such 
thrilling and soul-stirring sentiments, in behalf of Liberty, from the 
lips of him whom Heaven has given us to become the great defend- 
er of the Nation, the Constitution, and Liberty. 

Let us long remember these great and good principles, which our 
distinguished instructor has this day taught us, and let us bear them 
hence, to disseminate throughout the world, and to bless man and 
humanity. 

After referring to the sublimity of the mountain scenery of New 
Hampshire, and to the particular fact, that a very near relative of 
Mr. Abbott's was the proprietor of the principal part of Mount 
Washington, and to its being the " tallest" kind of land in all New 
England, he offered the following sentiment : — 

Mount Washington and our National Constitution ! — The former is the 
work of the Great Architect of the Universe ; the latter, the product of human 
intellect, framed to protect that spirit of Liberty, wliich was born in man, and 
is natural to man, and can only be extinguished ■when the heart of humanity 
shall cease to beat. May they each endure together and forever. 

Volunteer : 

New Hampshire! — It has been said that she exports nothing but " Granite 



108 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

and Ice," but the specimens, here on exhibition to-day, prove that she is not be- 
hind the age in her " domestic industry." Therefore, may her " Granite " sons, 
with their lenses of " Ice," so concentrate the light of liberty, that ere long the 
sun will not rise upon the palace of a tyrant or the cot of a slave. 

[Loud Cheers.] 
By a New Hampshire Lady : 

New Hampshire ! — May she continue to send forth " shining lights " to be the 
pride of her sister States, and never be immindful of the genius and learning 
that remains. 

By Richard Nutter : 

Our Mothers ! — Our first and our firmest friends ; their early precepts and 
example have been a safe and constant guide. Their fidelity of trust, affec- 
tionate care and solicitude for onr early and subsequent happiness and welfare, 
ceases only with their lives. May they never be forgotten by their Sons, but, 
to the end of our lives, be gratefully remembered and substantially acknowl- 
edged, as our Jirst, most valued, and Jinnest friends. 

By Dr. J. V. C. Smith: 

Natives of New Hampshire ! — Better to have been born on a granite bed 
than not born at all. < 

A SONG. 

BY B. B. FRENCH. 

Air: — ^^ Ye Mariners of EnglancV 

Ye sons of old New Hampshire, 

I greet ye one and all ? 
Ye brothers of my Granite home 

May blessings round you fall. 
Assembled now to honor her, 

Recall her name of old ! 
Let the fame of each name 

In thunder shouts be told ; 

While the toast, and glee, and song go round, 
Li thunder shouts be told ! 

Stark ! like our granite mountains, 

Unmoved, in native pride, 
He stood before the hostile hosts, 

And all their power defied ! 
Huzza for Stark, and Bennington, 

Where back, war's tide he rolled ; 



MR. French's song. 109 

Let the fame of his name 
In thunder shouts be told ; 

While the toast, and glee, and song go round, 
In thunder shouts be told. 

And CiLLEY ! bravest of the brave, 

'Till the last field was won ; 
The whole broad Nation, could not boast 

A truer hearted son ! 
First in the fight, and last to yield. 

Among those men of old, 
Let the fame of his name 

In thunder shouts be told ; 

While the toast, and glee, and song go round, 
In thunder shouts be told. 

Our Bartlett, Whipple, Thornton, names 

On freedom's glorious scroll ! 
They cannot be forgotten, while 

Time's wheels shall onward roll ; 
We pledge them here, in bumpers bright, 

And dear their memories hold. 
Let the fame of each name 

In thunder shouts be told ; 

While the toast, and glee, and song go round, 
In thunder shouts be told. 

And Pierce ! a name at which each heart, 

With patriotism may burn ; 
" A true, good man, and brave as good," 

Inscribe upon his urn. 
Within our very heart of hearts, 

His memory we enfold, 
While the fame of his name 

Li thunder shouts is told ; 

AYhile the toast, and glee, and song go round. 
In thunder shouts is told. 

On, on they come in long array, 
And hosts our memories fill ; 



110 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

The ancient fathers of our race, 

Those men of iron will ! 
They gave us Freedom, better far 

Than legacies of gold ! 
Let the fame of each name 
In thunder shouts be told ; 

"While the toast, and glee, and song go round, 
In thunder shouts be told ! 

The heavens are bright with points of light, 

We cannot name each star, — 
But brighter, in the heaven of heavens, 

Our constellations are ! 
Their memory, then, New Hampshire's dead ! 

The learned, the brave, the bold. 
Let the fame of each name 

In thunder shouts be told ; 

While the toast, and glee, and song go round. 
In thunder shouts be told ! 

Our granite race are every where, 

Where man can find employ ; 
If ever man was in the moon, 

'T was a New Hampshire boy. 
If we could find, who thus aloft. 

Has gone and left the fold. 
We 'd let the fame of his name 

In thunder shouts be told ; 

While the toast, and glee, and song went round, 
In thunder shouts be told. 

By Joliu Foster : 

New Hampshire Mothers ! — May we ever hold their names in afiectionate 
remembrance ! 

By G. C. Holman : 

The Grand Monadnock ! — " May its shadow never be less." 

By Joseph Dowe : 

*' New Hampshire Come-oulers ! " — May they never assume a worse aspect 
than to-day. 



SONG TO NEW HAMPSHIRE. Ill 



Volunteer : 



There are breezes among the Hills of New Hampshire, but from Avhence 
come the Gales ? 



Mr. Gale, a son of New Hampshire, six feet two inches in height, 
responded, that he came to the Festival to hear and see, and not to 
be gazed at, or to make a speech. He thanked his friends for their 
kind remembrance of him. 

Mr. Joseph M. Bell proposed that the following be sung, which 
was unanimously agreed to. 



TO THE SONS OF NEW HAI^IPSHIRE IN BOSTON, 

THIS SONG IS DEDICATED BY THEIR OBEDIENT SERVANT. 

Air : — "Auld Lang Si/ne.^^ 

A blessing on our native hills, 

And valleys rich and fair, 
Washed by a thousand merry rills, 

That smile and sparkle there ; 
We 've climbed her rugged mountains lone, 

And seen her rivers glide 
In swelling grandeur rolling on, 

To join old Ocean's tide. 

Her waving fields and busy mills, 

Our fathers' skill attest, 
Her cattle on a thousand hills, 

In living pastures rest. 
There lies the grave-yard, cold and drear. 

Where many a tear was shed 
O'er youthful friends we buried there, 

To memory never dead. 

Her rocks and woods, her lakes and floods, 

Her hills and valleys green, 
To us shine fairer than the realms 

Across the Jordan seen. 
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112 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

And then, among those hills of ours, 

The maids and matrons there, 
Like Sharon's rose amid the fiowers, 

Are fairest of the fair. 

O'er every sea her sons go forth, 

In every clime are known, 
From regions of the frozen North, \ 

To Egypt's burning zone. 
But, like the wanderers o'er the main, 

Who seek the Northern Star, 
Tlieir heai'ts still turn to home again, 

That Granite State afar. 

A blessing on our native hills, 

And valleys rich and fair, 
Washed by a thousand merry rills. 

That smile and sparkle there. 
We 've climbed her rugged mountains lone, 

And seen her rivers glide. 
In swelling grandeur rolling on, 

To join old Ocean's tide. 

Volunteer : 

Laio's Master Mason ! — Physically, mentally, and morally, a giant : not a 
native, but one whom New Hampsliire perfected, ere she sent him to shed his 
evening glory upon our horizon : — may his granite-born descendants emulate 
the wisdom of their ancestor. 

By Thomas Simmons, one of the Vice Presidents. 

Keene, and the beautiful valley of the Count?/ of Chesliire ! — As long as it 
shall be watered by the Ashuelot, or the Monadnoek shall keep her watch-tower 
in the distance, so long shall the hearts of her children, in whatever clime or 
country, " warm to the Tartan ! " 

On motion of Dr. J. V. C. Smith, it was 

Resolved, That when this meeting adjourn it be to the year of our 
Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and that it then be 
called together by such of its present officers as may then be living. 

By NiNiAN C. Betton, one of the Vice Presidents. 

While we remember the place of our birth, let us not forget the place where 
we have so long and so happily resided. 

) 



NEW Hampshire's voice. 113 

NEW HAMPSHIRE'S VOICE : A CALL TO THE FESTIVAL. 

RV A NEW IIAMPSIIIKE MECHANIC. 

Hark ! 'tis New Ilampsliire's voice we hear, 

But not in dread as erst it ypoke, 
"Wlien trouble's clouds were hovering near, 

And o'er her hills in terror broke ; 

When the fierce savage lit the llame 

With hands dyed red in human life, 
And mortal woe made loud acclaim 

Amid the din of midnight strife. 

Not now as when with wrong oppressed 

Her heroes buckled on the sword, 
Bared to their country's foes their breast. 

And in its cause their life-blood poured ; 

Not now as when her battle peal 

Gave fierce defiance to the foe. 
And, right-impelled, the gleaming steel 

Smote quick and strong the avenging blow. 

Her summons ne'er was given in vain ; 

An answering note from hill and glen 
Echoed on many a battle plain 

In mighty deeds of gallant men. 

The voice we hear breathes not of war. 

Nor aught of terror doth impart ; 
It tells no tale delight to mar, 

Nor thrills with anguished doubt the heart. 

Like music note.?, that call to peace. 

It bids us to her courts repair. 
For one brief hour to find release 

From worldly strife and turmoil there. 

To joy in memory of the past, 

To brush away the dust of years, 
To bring back scenes too fair to last, 

Oft wakened with regretful tears ; 



114 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

And times when deeds of aftei' date 
AVere shadowed in each boyish plan, 

Revealing in the child's estate 
The mighty promise of the man. 

Contrasted with the sordid cares 

That chill our heart and dull our joy, 

How bright and beautiful compares 
The blessed season of the boy. 

Mother ! we hear thy kindly voice, 
We fling discordant feelings by ; 

Brother with brother shall rejoice. 
And at thy summons gladly fly. 

We pledge thee fondly, and the toast 
Each breast with warm emotion fills : ■ 

" The good old State we love the most. 
Enthroned upon her thousand hills ! " 



OLDEST SON OF NEW HMIPSmRE. 

The Oldest Son of New Hampshire, wlio attended the Festival, 
was Mr. Samuel Gregg, 18 Leverett street. He was born in 
Peterboro', New Hampshire, in 1772, and has resided in Boston 
constantly for the last half century. Among the first settlers in 
his native town, were his mother and father. The latter, subse- 
quently known as Major Samuel Gregg, was a native of London- 
derry. Joining, at the early age of seventeen, the English anny 
in the old French war, he was at the capture of Louisburg, and on 
the Plains of Abi'aham, with the brave Gen. Wolfe, whose great 
victory there, united the Canadas to the British Empire. When 
the Revolution broke out, he refused to act under his commission 
of Lieutenant in the King's service, took up arms for his country- 
men, and, with his wife, who was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, 
staked all for the cause of Independence. The following, related 
by their son, the present Samuel Gregg, will give some idea of the 
necessities and toils of some of the first founders of the Granite 
State. "My parents planted themselves in Peterboro'," remarked 



MR. Gregg's remarks. 115 

Mr. G., " about one hundred years ago, on the banks of the 
Contooeook. At that period there was not a settler nor a single 
imjyrovement between their house and Canada ; and it was years 
afterwards, before they had one nelgltbor, and for a long time but 
one, between them on the North, and the boundaries of that Prov- 
ince. On a cokl winter's day, my mother threw on her cloak of 
scarlet cloth, such as the grcat-great-grandmothers of the rising 
generation were then accustomed to wear, and, with her husband, 
went out upon the ice down the Contooeook, to see the family of 
their nearest northern neighbor in Antrim, twelve miles ofl' by 
land, and some fifteen by the river. They arrived about noon, but 
found their neighbor, Mr. James Aiken, had gone with his wife, to 
make a call, on some of their relatives twenty-five or tldrty miles 
distant at the East. Miss Aiken, their little daughter, then about 
twelve years old, made a cup of tea for my mother. After which, 
the two disappointed travellers retraced their steps over the ice to 
their dwelling, which they reached in the evening. That night, 
there fell a rain so heavy as to break up the frozen stream ; and, 
had they not returned as they did, they could not have reached 
home for less than four or five tveeJcs, as there Avere no roads, and 
the snow was three or four feet deep in the woods. In those days 
there was not a cart nor a vehicle on tvheels, nor a highway in the 
whole town of Peterboro' ; and my ancestor was obliged to take 
his grain four miles to mill, and bring the meal back upon a rude 
car, composed of poles, fastened lengtlnvays to a cross-piece, the 
front being elevated by the oxen, and the rear drawn over the 
ground, somewhat like a sled." 

Retiring from the Hall, towards the close of the Festival, and re- 
minding some friends of the trials, sufferings, denials, and fortitude 
of those who first founded his native State, he furnished the follow- 
ing sentiment : — 

The First Settlers of Xew Hampshire! — Their privations and virtues can 
never be forgotten by the natives of the Granite State. 



116 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

THE OLD GRANITE STATE. — A SONG. 

BY 3IRS. SARAH JOSEPIIA HALE. 

Our world has a wonderful story, 

A story as new as her name ; 
Each State brings its guerdon of glory, 

To build up her Temple of Fame. 
But Architects know as they plan it, — 

This Temple of Liberty's home, 
No stuff is so sure as the Granite, 

To last through the ages to come. 

And so from our mountains we quarry, 

The strong living blocks as they stand ; 
And scarce may we pause for the hurry, 

That 's urging them over our land. 
Our land, you will find if you scan it, 

The IMiddle, the South, and the West, 
Among its proud pillars of Granite, 

Our mountains have furnished the best. 

But here in this lap of the ocean, 

Our strength and our glory appear ; 
The world may run wild in commotion, 

And Nations fall fainting with fear : 
The ship Constitution, we '11 man it. 

And place the Expounder on deck. 
And firm as our mountains of Granite, 

We '11 stand in the battle or wreck. 

Then hail to the beautiful jilaces, 

Our homes in the old Granite State ! 
Her sons, 'mid the struggle of races. 

Will never be laggards or late : 
And happy as when we began it, 

May life lose its last ling'ring sand, 
And deeds worth engraving on Granite, 

Ennoble each name in our Band. 



SENTIMENTS. 117 



By T. W. Bancroft : 



Sons of New Hampshire ! — So long as our hearts beat, and our Lreasts glow 
with emotions, may we cherish In our memory the State that gave us birth. 

By Levi Bartlett : 

This Family Gathering ! — ]May It prove as useful to us as the occasion Is 
pleasant and gratifying. 

By Mr. Batclielder : 

The Daughters of Neio Hampshire I — Pure as her mountain streams, fair 
as her fertile plains ; would that they had been with us at this joyous Festival. 

Bj J. W. S. : 

The Eloquence of the Switzerland of Neio England! — The rival In wisdom 
to the German, In elegance to the Italian, In majesty to the Spanish, In bril- 
liancy to the English, will be presented to the world by the French. 

By Jas. French : 

The Statesmen of New Hampshire ! — The Corinthian pillars of the Temple 
of American Freedom ; they are the test of what Is noble in patriotism, dignified 
in character, and pure In principle. 

By David Bryant : 

The Settlers of Neio Hampshire ! — The first In New England to cultivate the 
potato, and manufacture linen. JNIay they be remembered with respect while 
the vegetable or the fabric Is useful. 

By N. Gale : 

Tlie Old Granite Slate ! — Her voice in the national councils and her arm In 
the battle-field will never be forgotten while she can point to such sons as 
Webster, Woodbury, and McNiel to illustrate her greatness, her patriotism, 
and her military glory. 

By Charles L. Woodbury : 

Portsmouth '■ — Trade, Commerce, and the Fisheries were the objects of her 
Pilgrim Fathers ; her absent sons rejoice at her prosperity, and send assurance 
that, wander where we maj', our hearts still linger amid the pleasant memories 
of our boyhood's home- 

By Dr. J. V. C. Smith: 

The Bells of New Hampshire •' — Let us hear them ring a merry peal. 



118 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Voted, on motion of Mr. J. M. Bell, that we adjourn after 

singing this 



ORIGINAL HYIklN. 

BY A LADY OF BOSTON. 

Tune : — St. Martin's. 

Father, Divine ! we raise our hearts 

With gratitude to Thee ; 
In all the joy this day imparts, 

Thy love we fain would see. 

One common hirth-right do we share. 

One common lineage own ; 
And all, supported by thy care, 

Depend on Thee alone. 

Then bless this hour, this festive board. 

And this our social cheer ; 
And in Thy Book of Life record, 

Each name that 's enter'd here. 



APPENDIX. 



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APPENDIX. 



The Committee on Invitations sent Letters to many distinguished 
" Sons of New Hampshire," from ^Yhom the following replies 
were received : — 

[From Hon. Lewis Cass, Senator from Michigan.] 

Detroit, Oct. 30, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

I wish I could accept your invitation to attend the Festival of 
the Sons of New Hampshire, to be held at Boston, on the seventh 
of November. But I cannot, though my heart will be with you 
on that interesting occasion. Interesting to you, but much more so 
to those who long since left their native State, and whom the acci- 
dents of life have removed far from her borders. The second half 
century has commenced since I became an emigrant from my own 
home, and my father's home, and sought that land of promise in the 
then distant West, which has been to me, as to so many others, a 
land of performance. But though I may have too often neglected, 
yet I have never forgotten the lessons of wisdom, and virtue, which 
I learned in our father-land, and to which I owe much of the suc- 
cess, undeserved on my part, which has attended me through life. 
There are climates more genial, and regions less rugged than the 
land of our birth presents : but the sun shines upon no country 
where human nature is more elevated, or where the social condition 
is higher or happier. After an absence of thirty-three years, 
and after taking my part in the foundation of an empire in the 
Western forest, one of the proudest victories man has ever gained, 
over the obstacles of nature, I revisited my native town, and I left 



122 NEAV HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

it, satisfied that virtue, and intelligence, and domestic happiness, 
depend little upon natural advantages, and that, in these elements of 
prosperity, social and political, the sons of New Hampshire may 
fear no comparison between their native State, and the most favored 
regions of the earth. 

Joining you in those feelings of pride and attachment, which the 
remembrance of the land of our ancestors cannot fail to inspire 
around your festive board, 

I am, as you are, ever among the grateful 

Sons of New Hampshire, 

LEWIS CASS. 

MAKSHALL P. WILDER, Esq., and others, Committee, &o. &c. 



[Frotn Hon. George Evans, ex- Senator from Maine.\ 

Gardiner, Nov. 5, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

I have omitted, until this time, to reply to your obliging favor of 
the 25th ult., in the earnest hope that it would be in my power 
to accept the invitation to attend the Festival of the Sons of New 
Hampshire, with which you have honored me. I am now reluc- 
tantly compelled to forego that gratification, owing to the pressure 
of professional engagements. 

Be pleased to accept my acknowledgments for the courtesy ex- 
tended to me, and believe me, 

With great regard, 

Your ob't servant, 

GEORGE EVANS. 

Hon. MARSHALL P. Wn.DER, ^ , ., 

CHARLES G. GREENE, Esq. ( '''"^^ °*^i^'''' Committee, &c. 



[From Hon. John A. Dix, ex-Semtur from New York.] 

New York, Nov. 5, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

Were it not for business, which rerpiires my attention in this 

city during the present week, I should take great pleasure in 

accepting your invitation to attend the Festival of the Sons of New 



APPENDIX. 123 

Harapsliire, in Boston, on the seventh inst. As a native of that enter- 
prising and patriotic State, I can never cease to feel a deep interest 
in all that concerns her prosperity and her good name, or in those, 
in -whose sight, as in my own, her soil is consecrated as the last 
resting-place of their ancestors and kindred. The gratification of 
uniting with you to commemorate our common birth-place, would be 
greatly enhanced by the pleasure of meeting many of you, whose 
names are connected with some of my earliest recollections. Nothing 
but imperious necessity should prevent me from sharing your fes- 
tivities : and, with my regrets, I beg you to accept for yourselves, 
and to tender to your assembled friends, my cordial salutations. 
I am, Gentlemen, respectfully. 

Your ob't servant, 

JOHN A. mx. 

Messrs. MAESHALL V. WILDER, GEORGE WM. GORDON, 

CHARLES G. GREENE, ISAAC O. BARNES, 

J. V. C. SMITH, JOHN P. HEALY, 

CmVRLES A. WELLS, FLETCHER WEBSTER. 
C. B. GOODRICH, 



[From Hon. ISIoses Norris, Jr., Senator from Neiv Hampshire.] 

Manchester, N. H. Oct. 26, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

Your kind favor of the 25th inst. has been received. I feci 
highly honored and gratified with your complimentarj^ invitation to 
be present at the Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire, to be 
held in your city on the seventh of November. With great pleasure 
I shall endeavor to avail myself of the honor to be present on that 

occasion. 

Very respectfully, 

Your ob't servant, 

M. NORRIS. 

To M. P. WILDER, Esq., and others, Committpc of Invitation. 



124 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

[From Hon. Charles H. Atherton, aged 75. ex-Memhrr of Congress, froin N. H.] 

Amherst, N. H., Oct. 29, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

I have the honor of acknowledging the receipt of a card of 
admission, and your letter of invitation to attend the " Festival of 
the Sons of New Hampshire." On no occasion have I more sensibly 
felt the regret of saying, that circumstances forbid my mingling in 
crowded assemblages, and impose upon me the propriety of declin- 
ing to accept your invitation. The Festival, and the manner and 
objects of its getting up, have my hearty approval, and it would give 
me the most sincere pleasure to be able to unite in this celebration 
with the Sons of my native State, many of whom I personally know 
and highly respect. They deservedly bear an honorable part in all 
the business, social, civil, and religious relations of hfe in Boston and 
its Commonwealth. 

May this Festival, by its annual celebration, sensibly cherish and 
strengthen our social affections and ties of brotherhood. May it 
improve and raise the standard of character in " The Sons of New 
Hampshire," till that character shall be as conspicuous, elevated, 
and enduring as her own White jNIountains and Granite Hills. 
May the Patronymic, " Son of New Hampshire," be a passport to 
respect and confidence the world over. 

I am. Gentlemen, with every sentiment of respect, 
Your ob't servant, 

C. H. ATHERTON. 

To MAESILVLL V. WILDER, Esq., and others, Committctv &c. 



[From Hon. Charles G. Atiierton, ex-Senator from New Hampshire.] 

Manchester, N. H., Nov. 6, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

Please accept my thanks for the invitation to the " Festival of the 
Sons of New Hampshire," with which you have kindly honored me. 

I had hoped to be present on an occasion which promises to be 
so gratifying, as an exhibition of the talent, enterprise, and worth, 
which have emanated from our native State, and so interesting, on 
account of all the friendly and fraternal sentiments and associations 
it will tend to awaken and confirm. 



APPENDIX. 125 

But I regret to say, that professional engagements compel me to 
deny myself that gratification. 

I am, with great respect, 

Your friend and servant, 

C. G. ATHERTON. 

To aiiVRSIIALL r. WILDER, Esq., and otlicis, Committee, &c. 



[From Gen. James Miller.] 

Temple, N. H. Nov. 2, 1849. 
Gentleaien : 

I have had the honor to receive your polite invitation to attend 
the " Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire." 

^Vhile no occasion could more warmly enlist all my sympathies 
and feelings, or urge me so strongly to disregard all ordinary rea- 
sons or apologies for absence from festivities so grateful to me, 
merging as they will, all other feelings and motives but those of 
honoring our native State, and the free communion and unrestrained 
social intercourse of her Sons, it is with profound regret that I am 
compelled, by the infirmities of age, and still more, by those of dis- 
ease, to decline the honor of your invitation. 

Hoping, Gentlemen, that the occasion may be one, in all its cir- 
cumstances, of unalloyed happiness to all, forming, cherishing, and 
strengthening all the kindly, generous, and social feelings and bonds, 
which should ever unite the Sons of the old Granite State, 
I have the honor to be. 

Very respectfully, Gentlemen, 

Your ob't servant, 

JAMES MILLER. 
I beg leave to ofifer as a sentiment : 

The Sons of New Hampshire ! — While they cling -with filial reverence and 
devotion to the State of their birth, may their love of country and their patri- 
otism embrace the tohole country as " One and insejiarable." 

To MAESHALL P. WILDER, Esq., and others. Committee, &c. 



12G NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

[From Prof. Charles B. Haddock.] 

Dartmouth College, Nov. 5, 18-40. 
Gentlemen : 

I am extremely sorry that a previous engagement to deliver a 
discourse on an important public occasion, at the same time, will 
prevent me from accepting your polite invitation to me to be present 
at the New Hampshire Festival, on the seventh instant. 

I regret my inability to attend the more because it deprives me 
of the opportunity, which the occasion would doubtless have pre- 
sented, for me to express, in behalf of the College, the interest we 
all take in the Festival, and the sympathy we feel in the enterprise 
and prosperity of the Sons of New Hampshire, whether in their 
native State or out of it. Nothing of moment to them is indifferent 
to us ; their honorable objects, their intelligent industry, their hardy 
virtues, their love of liberty and of learning, their arduous strug- 
gles in the great common cause of virtue and humanity ; in all these 
we honor them, and deem ourselves honored. 

It is not, perhaps, quite presumptuous in me to say a word for the 
College, the poor dumb mother of Eloquence, whose sons must speak 
for her, whose sons do speak for her, as you know, Gentlemen, as 
the country and the world knows, with an eloquence unsurpassed. 
Could I have been present, I should have felt it to be my duty to 
say something in her behalf. For, little as I have done to augment 
her usefulness, or extend her fame, it is now more than thirty years 
that I have been nourished in her bosom with a parental indulgence. 

The College of our native State, Gentlemen, has been, from an 
early period in the history of the State, as prominent and as re- 
markable a geographical feature of New Hampshire, as her moun- 
tains themselves. 

It is now just eighty years since Dartmouth College was founded; 
the only College of the State ; she has, it is hoped, fostered every 
great interest, and elevated the whole character of our people. 
Through the liberal professions, the Academies and public Schools, 
her influence, on the spirit of society, we trust, has been salutary 
and constant. Not a man has lived in the State, or emigrated 
from it, who can be said to owe nothing to her. The atmosphere 
he breathed in his youth was more salubrious ; the influences about 



APPENDIX. 127 

him, all kindlier and more ennobling for the labors and sacrifices 
of the great founder of a school in the Avildcrness. Planting a 
College, Avith his own hands, almost beyond the limits of civilization, 
the apostolic Wheelock became the benefactor of the Avhole State, 
and of all succeeding generations. 

Of the success of his generous and far-sighted undertaking, I 
need say no more than to ask you to look at its fruits, in our whole 
system of popular instruction, which has given to the State, and to 
the country, so much of the best cultivated and most useful mind, 
so much of professional ability, of sterling statesmanship, and of 
vigorous eloquence. In behalf of our only seat of learning, this 
north-star in our firmament of letters, permit me to congratu- 
late the Sons of New Hampshire in Boston and vicinity, on the 
happy idea, originated by them, of a State Festival abroad, at which 
the common recollections of their native place may be brightened, 
and their attachment to the State they have left increased, without 
diminishing their interest in the prosperity of the Commonwealth, 
by which they have been adopted. 

Allow me to give you as a sentiment : 

New Hampshire Mind! — The only product of the State, which, though often 
parted with, is never alienated. 

I have the honor to be. Gentlemen, 

With great consideration and esteem, 

Your obedient servant, 

CHARLES B. HADDOCK. 

To JMjbssbs. MARSHALL P. WILDER, and others, 
Committee of Invitation. 



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128 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

[From Hon. William Plumek, aged 91, ex-Governor of New Hampshire.] 

Epping, November 3, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

I have received your invitation to attend the Festival of the Sons 
of New Hampshire, to be holden at Boston, on the seventh instant. 
It would give me great pleasure, if the state of my health would 
permit, to be with you on that occasion. But the infirmities of age 
press heavily upon me ; the penalty, which few escape, who much 
outlive the threescore years and te7i, fixed by the Psalmist as the 
ordinary period of human life. Even the fourscore years, which he 
pronounced to be labor and sorrow, to the few by whom they are 
attained, I have not only reached, but have left them, long since, 
behind me, in my progress of life. Age, then, and its consequent 
debility, must be my excuse for not attending the meeting, to which 
you invite me. I do not the less sympathize with you in the ob- 
jects of that meeting. Born in Massachusetts, I feel for the old 
Bay State the veneration of a true son for a worthy parent ; and 
it is among your best claims on my regard, that you, Gentlemen, 
and those for whom on this occasion you act, have, in various ways, 
and in many walks of life, done such high honor, and rendered 
such true service to the State of your adoption and of my nativity. 
But, though born in Massachusetts, I have been for more than 
eighty years an inhabitant of New Hampshire ; and you may well 
beheve that I cherish for her the respect to which her many virtues 
entitle her, and feel, far more strongly than I can express, the 
deep gratitude which her favors shown to me, in years now long 
departed, have written on my heart. For her hardy, virtuous, 
and intelligent sons, whether remaining in their native homes, or 
seeking fame and fortune in other regions, I can indulge no bet- 
ter wish, than that they may prove their true descent from a noble 
stem, by conduct worthy of their birth and nurture in the Granite 
State. 

I remain, Gentlemen, with great respect, 

Your obedient servant, 

WILLIAM PLUMER. 

To the Committee of Invitation. 



APPENDIX. J29 

[From lion. Samuel Bell, ex- Senator from, and ex-Governm- of Neio Hampshire 
formerly Judge of the Superior Court.] 

Chester, Nov. 1, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

It would afford me great pleasure to attend the Festival of the 
Sonsof New Hampshire, at Boston, on the seventh instant, to which 
you have done me the honor to give me an invitation. My feeble 
state of health alone will prevent my enjoying the pleasure of meet- 
ing with those whom I so much esteem and honor. 
I am. Gentlemen, most respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

SAMUEL BELL. 

To Hon. MAESHALL P. WILDER, and others. 
Committee of Invitation. 



[From His Excellency, Hon. Samuel Dinsmoor, Governor of New Hampshire.'] 

Keene, Nov. 5, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your invitation to 
be present at the Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire, to be 
holden in Boston, on the seventh instant. 

I have delayed an answer until this moment, in the hope that I 
might be able to pass by the reasons which opposed my accepting 
it. I most sincerely regret, however, that I am constrained to de- 
cline it, for I can conceive of no occasion more calculated to gratify 
the just pride of a native of New Hampshire, or promising a higher 
degree of intellectual and social enjoyment, than the Festival you 
are about to hold. 

With sentiments of the sincerest esteem and respect, 

I am your obedient servant, 

SAMUEL DINSMOOR. 

To Hon. MARSHALL P. WILDER, and others. 
Committee of Invitation. 



130 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

[From Hon. Aethue Livermore, aged 84, formerly Chief Justice of the Superior 
Court of Judicature in Neio Hampshire.] 

Plymouth, N. H. Oct. 27, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

Nothing could have been more acceptable to me than the com- 
plimentary ticket, with which I am honored, of admission to the 
Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire. And ardent is my desire 
to participate with my esteemed brethren in the rules and pleasures 
of their Festival. But feeble health, and other ills to which old 
age is incident, render me hopeless of seeing Boston on the seventh 
day of November. But I will, on that day, think only of the Sons 
of New Hampshire, and their Festival, and be with them in affec- 
tion and brotherly love, however distant in other respects. I am, 
truly. Gentlemen, with all my heart, the friend and servant of the 
Sons of New Hampshire in general, and of their Committee of In- 
vitation in particular, 

ARTHUR LIVERMORE. 

To the Houorable Committee of Invitation. 



[From Hon. Samuel Appleton.] 

- Boston, Nov. 3, 1849. 
Dear Sir : 

I have received your polite note of the 29th ultimo, advising me 
that I have been selected to act as one of the Vice Presidents of 
the New Hampshire Festival, to be holden at the Fitchburg Station 
House, on the seventh inst., and inviting me to accept that office. 

I return my sincere thanks for the honor done me by this selec- 
tion. The objects to be accomplished by the Sons of New Hamp- 
shire, through the proposed Festival, are such as meet my cordial 
approbation. It would afford me much pleasure to join them in 
the procession, and to be present with them at the dinner. I re- 
gret, however, that, by reason of my great age, and the lameness 
in my limbs, I must deny myself the gratification of accepting the 



APPENDIX. 131 

honor so politely tendered, and also of participating in the festivi- 
ties of the occasion. 

With the hope that the celebration may be a happy one, and, in 
its results, fully realize the wishes of its best friends, 
I remain, Sir, with much respect, 

Your friend and obedient servant, 

SAMUEL APPLETON. 

Aged 83 j'ears, 4 months, and 16 days. 

N. B. — Although I cannot have the privilege of being present at 
the Festival of the Sons of my native State, in person, I respect- 
fully desire to be present with them in the following sentiment, 
which is at your disposal. [See page 48.] 

To Fletcher Webster, Esq., Chairman of Executive Committee. 

After reading the letter from Mr. Appleton, Mr. Webster pro- 
posed the following toast : — 

" Health and prolonged life to Hon. Samuel Appleton." 

[Great applause.] 



[From Hon. John Sullivan, Attorney General of New Hampshire.] 

Exeter, Oct. 31, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

The Committee, of which you are members, have done me the 
honor to extend to me an invitation to be present at the Festival of 
the Sons of New Hampshire, to be holden at Boston, on the 
seventh of November next. 

To be present at the Festival, with many men whose fame be- 
longs to the world, claiming this State as their birth-place, must bo 
the occasion of pride, as well as pleasure, to every son of New 
Hampshire. 

It is with deep regret that, by reason of my professional engage- 
ments, I am denied the pleasure, as well as the honor, of being 
present at the Festival. 

I am, Gentlemen, with great respect. 

Your obedient servant, 

JNO. SULLIVAN. 

To MARSHALL P. WILDER, Esq., and other Gentlemen 
of the Committee of Invitation. 



132 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

[From Hon. Franklin Pierce, ex-Senator from New Hampshire.^ 

Court Room, Manchester, N. H., Oct. 29, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

Accept my acknowledgments for your polite invitation to be 
present, November seventh, at the Festival of the Sons of New 
Hampshire, and the assurance of my sincere regrets, that profes- 
sional engagements forbid me to hope to join you on an occasion 
that promises so much. 

Your most obedient servant, 

FRANK. PIERCE. 

To MARSHALL P. AVILDER, Esq., and others, 
Committee of Invitation. 



[Frovi Hon. Edmunc Burke, recently Commissioner of Patents, and formerly 
Member of Congress from New Hampshire.^ 

Washington, Nov. 5, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 
25th ult., inviting me to attend the Festival of the Sons of New 
Hampshire, to be holden in Boston, on the seventh instant. In reply, 
it is hardly necessary for me to say, that I deeply regret that my 
engagements in this city wull prevent me from participating with 
you in the festivities of that interesting occasion. 

Although I am not a native of the old Granite State, I can with 
truth say, that I was born on the banks of the beautiful river which 
forms her western boundary, in sight of her picturesque and per- 
petual hills ; and that I adopted her as my mother immediately on 
attaining my majority, nineteen years ago, and now rejoice in the 
proud distinction of being numbered among her Sons. On her 
rugged but inspiring soil, with timid hand and trembling heart, 
doubtful of the future, I launched the bark of my destiny upon 
the stream of busy life, and whatever of success has attended my 
voyage thus far, I owe, in a great measure, to the friendly en- 
couragement and cordial support of her true hearted and enlight- 
ened people. They not only sustained me when I was struggling 
against adverse fortunes, and gave me preferments and honors, but 
they permitted me to choose from among their virtuous daughters, 
my letter half, and thus to become, in truth and by right, one of 
the family. 



APPENDIX. 133 

Although New Hampshire receives with generous welcome, and 
adopts as her own, the children of her sister States, how brilliant is 
the chaplet which her native born sons have woven for her brow. 
What glorious names glitter in her coronet. In the Senate, in the 
tented field, at the bar, in the pulpit, in the fields of poesy, in the 
busy marts of commerce, in the limitless world of invention, her 
children successfully claim to be equal among the most eminent. 
Without recalling by name her long array of illustrious dead, there 
yet lives a Webster, a Woodbury, a Cass, a Dix, a Pierce, a Mc- 
Niel, a Hale, favored daughter of the JNIuses, and many more that 
might be named in this brilliant category of intellect and talent. 
In eloquence, poetry, arts, and arms, the sons and daughters of the 
Granite State fear not to challenge competition and comparison. 
Some of her gifted children she lends to the service and the history 
of other States, and others she keeps to adorn and illustrate their 
native home, her own rugged hills and romantic valleys. 

And her noble people ! On no other spot of the earth dwell more 
virtue, integrity, courage, and energy. Among her majestic moun- 
tains, whose hoary heads, penetrating the region of perpetual frosts, 
look down upon the clouds, her sons and daughters contemplate the 
grandeur and sublimity of the Creator's works, and Rehgion, the 
parent of virtue and the firm basis of character, rears its altars in 
their hearts. Her picturesque scenery, inspiring the imagination, 
and touching the deepest sympathies of the soul, lays the founda- 
tion of just and true sentiments. And her rugged soil, demanding 
active labor as the condition of remunerating fertility, is the stern 
teacher of industry, and the rough but kind nurse of enterprise. 
And hence the success of the Sons of New Hampshire in every 
field of adventure which they explore, and on every spot which they 
choose for a habitation. 

In conclusion, permit me to offer the following sentiment. [See 
page 57.] 

I am, with the highest respect. 

Your obedient servant, 

EDMUND BURKE. 

To Messrs. MARSHALL P. WILDER, and others, 
Committee, &c. 



134 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

[From Hon. B. B. French.] 

Magnetic Telegraph Office, ) 
City of Washington, Oct. 29, 1849. ) 
Gentlemen : 

I have just received your esteemed favor of the 25th instant, 
inviting me to attend the " Festival of the Sons of New Hamp- 
shire," at Boston, on the seventh day of November next. 

Nothing short of most pressing business engagements could pre- 
vent me from being present on an occasion which I should so highly 
enjoy. 

By the mail of yesterday, I received a letter from Harvey Jewell, 
Esq., requesting me to write a song or a poem, for the occasion, and, 
as I shall be under the necessity of leaving this city to-morrow 
morning, on business connected with my office, I have, almost im- 
promptu, thrown into rhyme a few ideas which I have dignified 
with the title " A Song." 

There may be poetry in the telegraph itself, and it has been 
beautifully and poetically said, 

" Along the smooth and slender wires 
The viewless heralds nm," 

but I assure you there is none whatever in superintending the erec- 
tion of those same wires ; and, as that is the business on which I 
am to be engaged for some days to come, I feared my muse might 
not be propitious, therefore I have seized the only time at my com- 
mand to woo her, and enclose the result. If you deem it worthy 
the occasion for which it was written, I shall be happy at having 
contributed my mite ; if not, it will make very good cigar lights ! 
I give you this sentiment : 

New Hampshire ! — Before my heart shall forget thee, it must become harder 
than thy granite. 

With heartfelt thanks for their remembrance of me, 
I am the Committee's ob't servant, 

B. B. FRENCH. 

To M. P. WILDEE, Esq., 

of the Committee of Invitation. 



APPENDIX. 135 

[From Rev. Dr. Ichabod Nichols.] 

Portland, November 6, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

Accept mj sincerest thanks for being remembered among the 
Sons of New Hampshire, in the invitation you have so pohtelj 
given me to their approaching Festival. If imperative duties had 
not prevented, no one would have united with more pleasure than 
myself, in the filial reminiscences of that interesting occasion ; some 
of them, indeed, of affections, joys, not to be expressed, dearer to 
our hearts, if not to our more ambitious feelings, than all which 
Patriotism can tell of the plains of Bennington, where the waning 
fortunes of the Revolution received their first favorable turn ; or 
the Pulpit, of Brattle street ; or Education , of Exeter ; or the Bar, 
the Bench, and the Gubernatorial Chair, of those who have dis- 
tinguished them in our native State ; or, even the Peace and the 
Constitution of this Union, of him, who has rendered services to 
both, of which his country and the world will never be forgetful. 

Heaven bless your re-union. Gentlemen, and render it worthy of 
the best recollections of our birth-place. 

Most respectfully, yours, 

I. NICHOLS. 

To MAESHALL P. WILDER, Esq., and others, 
Committee of Invitation. 



[From Hon. Ichabob Bartlktt, ex-Memher of Congress from New Hampsliire.\ 

Portsmouth, Oct. 30, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

I have received your polite note, of Oct. 25th, inviting me to be 
present at the Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire, to be 
holden on Wednesday, the seventh of November, and very much 
regret, that it will not be in my power to comply with your 

invitation. 

With great respect, 

Your obedient servant, 

ICHABOD BARTLETT. 

Permit me to offer the following sentiment for the occasion : — 
" The Sons of Netv Hampshire" resident in Boston and its vicinity ! — The 

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136 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

motlier of the Grachi, the old Granite State still claims them as her 
jewels. 

To JIARSKALL P. WILDER, Esq., and others, 
Committee of Invitixtion. 



[From Hon. Joseph Healt, ex-Memher of Cowjress from New Hamjjshire.] 

Washingtojt, N. H., Nov. 3, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

I have the honor to have received your letter Inviting me to be 
present at the Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire, to be hold- 
en in Boston, on the seventh instant. 

It woald give me very true pleasure to accept your kind invita- 
tion, and meet the gentlemen -who will assemble on that occasion. 
Among them, will be many, no doubt, with whom I have cultivated 
friendly social relations for a series of years, and many more, with 
whom I had pleasant early associations, and whose acquaintance I 
should be most happy to renew. 

A feeling of State pride, also, prompts me to be with you. 
New Hampshire has just cause to rejoice in the reputation which 
has been given to her by her Sons who have located themselves in 
other States ; and they have thrown back the most brilliant lustre 
upon her, whose adopted homes are in old Massachusetts. 

But while the occasion holds out so strong inducements to par- 
ticipate in its festivities, my engagements, added to the infirmities 
of age, will not allow me that gratification. 

Should a suitable opportunity be afforded at the table, I beg you 
to offer for me the following sentiment : — 

T7ie Sons of New HampsJdre in Boston and its Vicinity ! — Their native State 
beholds them with parental pride, and would hail their return to the homes of 
their childhood with parental affection. 

With many thanks for your polite invitation, 

I am. Gentlemen, with great respect. 

Your obliged friend and servant, 

JOSEPH HEALY. 

To Hon. IVIARSHALL P. WILDER, and others, 
Committee of In\-itation. 



APPENDIX. 137 

[From Hon. RIatthew Harvey, ex- Governor of New Hampshire.] 

HoPKiNTOX, N. H., Oct. 29, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

Your note of invitation for me to be present at the Festival of 
the Sons of JSfeiv Ilampsliire, on the seventh of November next, has 
been duly received ; and unless some obstacle, now unforeseen, 
should arise to prevent me, I shall most assuredly avail myself of 
the pleasure of being present on that occasion. 
With great respect, Gentlemen, 

Your ob't servant, 

MATTHEW HARVEY. 

To M. P. WILDEE, Esq., and others, 

Committee of Livitation. 



[From Hon. Andrew S. Woods, Judge of the Superior Court of Neio Hampshirei\ 

Bath, Nov. 5, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

I regret to say, at this late hour, that it -will not be in my power 
to be present at the Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire, at 
Boston, on the seventh instant, to which I have been so politely invi- 
ted by your recent note. I have delayed a reply in the hope that, 
notwithstanding my official and other engagements, I might, per- 
chance, be able to say that I would be present on that interest- 
ing occasion. But circumstances forbid the idea, and it only re- 
mains for me to console myself as well as I may in the case, to 
thank you for the kind and courteous manner in which you were 
pleased to confer on me the distinction of a free ticket of ad- 
mission, and to subscribe myself. 

Most sincerely, and respectively. 

Your ob't servant, 

ANDREW S. WOODS, 

To iViESSRS. MARSHALL P. WH^DER, and others. 
Committee of Invitation, Boston, Mass. 



138 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

[From Eon. Iea A. Eastman, Judge of the Superior C'omi of New Hampshire.] 

Manchester, Nov. 2, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

Yours of the twenty-fifth of October, inviting me to attend the 
" Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire," at your City, on the 
seventh instant, has been forwarded to me from my residence at 
Gilmanton. 

Were it not that oflScial engagements at this place, necessarily 
preclude my attendance, it would aflford me the greatest satisfaction 
to unite in your festivities. The term of the Court, however, 
which I am now holding, cannot be brought to a close till after the 
seventh, and I am therefore compelled, very reluctantly, to deny 
myself the pleasure of being present on the occasion. 

You will please accept for yourselves, and those whom you rep- 
resent, my profound thanks for your very polite invitation, and you 
have my sincere wishes, that your Festival may be a source of 
gratification, as it can hardly fail to be to all who may be so for- 
tunate as to participate in its enjoyments. 

Please present in my behalf, to the Gentlemen assembled, the 
following sentiment : — 

The Memory of those Sons of New Hampshire, •who, when the blood of 
Lexington flowed, rushed forth from their Granite hills, and were ready to sac- 
rifice their lives, their property, and fortunes, in defence of the Old Bay State, 
and of the Country. 

I have the honor to be, 

Very respectfully, 

Your ob't servant, 

IRA A. EASTMAN. 

To Messrs. M. P. "WILDER, and others, 
Committee of Invitation. 



[From Hon. Leonard Wilcox, Judge of the Superim- Court of New Hampshire.] 

Orford, Oct. 29, 1849. 

Gentlemen : 

It would afford me great pleasure, if I could attend the Festival 
of the Sons of New Hampshire on the seventh of Noyember. But 



APPENDIX. 139 

my engagements will not permit. With acknowledgments for your 
kind invitation, I am, 

Your ob't servant, 

LEONARD WILCOX. 

Hon. MARSHALL P. WH^DER, 

CHARLES G. GREENE, and others, 
Committee of Invitation. 



[From Hon. Joel Eastmax.] 

Conway, November 1, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 
25th ultimo, inviting me to be present at the Festival of the Sons of 
New Hampshire, to be holden on the seventh instant in the City of 
Boston. I should certainly avail myself of the opportunity I have, 
through your invitation to be present on that interesting occasion, 
but for indispensable engagements during the next week at Court. 
Very respectfully, 

Your ob't servant, 

JOEL EASTMAN. 

To MARSHALL P. WILDER, Esq., and others, 
Committee of Invitation. 



[From Hon. Thoaias P. Tkeadwell, Secretary of State of New Hampshire.} 

Office of Secretary of State, ) 

Concord, N. H., Nov. 3, 1849. \ 
Gentlemen : 

Your polite invitation to attend " the Festival of the Sons of New 
Hampshire" on the seventh inst. has been received, for which I beg 
leave to tender you my sincere thanks. It would be gratifying to 
me to meet the true hearted sons of our noble State, the men who 
feel proud in acknowledging, as their birth-place, the old Granite 
State ; but my engagements are such that I shall hardly be able 



140 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

to do SO. I can only say, God bless the Sons of New Hampshire. 
Wherever they go, may prosperity attend them. 
Very respectfully, 

THOMAS P. TREADWELL. 

To M. P. WILDER, Esq.. and others, 
Committee of Invitation. 

Woodbury, Webster, and Cass. — Specimens of <^e kind of cloth manufactured 
at the Common Schools of a State, sometimes called the " benighted regions." 
New Hampshire is constantly producing a similar article for home consump- 
tion, and for exportation. Wherever met, it is eagerly sought after, tor the 
Pulpit, the Press, the Bar, the Bench, the Senate Chamber, and the Cabinet, 
always commanding the highes price, because it is the best article of the kind, 
manufactured in these United States. 



[From Di: A-MOS TwitchelIv.] 

Keene, Nov. 4, 1849. 
Dear Sir: 

I have had the honor to receive your invitation to attend the 
Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire, in Boston, on the seventh 
instant. Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to meet so 
many of my old friends, as will undoubtedly be present on that oc- 
casion, but my health at this time is such that I fear I shall be 
unable to attend. 

The Committee will accept my grateful acknowledgments for their 
polite invitation. 

Most respectfully, yours, &c. 

AMOS TWITCHELL. 

To JLIRSIIALL P. WTLDER, Esq. 



[From Dr. Nathan Martin.] 

Dover, Oct. 29, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

Your very kind invitation to me, to be present at, and participate 
in the social enjoyment of " the Festival of the Sons of New Hamp- 
shire," on the seventh of November, in your City, has been duly 
received, and I regret exceedingly that a prior engagement to 



APPENDIX. 141 

attend the Medical Commencement of Dartmouth College, at that 
time, will preclude the possibility of my being present on the oc- 
casion. 

Nothing could give me more pleasure than to witness the assem- 
blage of those, whose enterprise has induced them to leave their 
native Granite State, to embark in the varied pursuits of usefulness, 
fame, and fortune in another, and yet are so mindful of her mountains, 
forests, and vales, that they deem it good to pause in the midst of 
their absorbing careers and give a day to their congregated thou<Thts 
of their natal homes ; the scenes, pursuits, and loves of their 
childhood. 

Please accept the following sentiment : — 

Neiv Hampshire ! — Justly proud of her mountains, lier enterprises, and her 
intellectual treasures at home, and super-eminenlhj so of her Sons abroad. 

Yours, truly, 

N. MARTIN. 

To Hex. IVIARSHALL P. WILDEE, and others, 
Committee of Invitation. 



[From Hon. Nicholas Oilman.] 

Exeter, Oct. 30, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your invitation for 
the seventh of November, and greatly regret that a previous en- 
gagement will deprive me of the pleasure of accepting it. 

Very respectfully, yours, 

N. GILMAN. 

To Hon. ]MAR SHALL P. WILDER, and others, 
Committee of Invitation. 



[From Hon. George Folsom.] 

New York, Nov. 7, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

I have the honor to acknowledge your polite invitation to attend 

the " Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire," to be holden in 

Boston to-day, and regret exceedingly that unavoidable circum- 



142 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

stances have prevented its acceptance. I had cherished the hope 
of being able to attend, up to a late hour on yesterday, but now 
only have it in my power to send you the following sentiment : — 

New Hampshire ! — Enterprise, skill, and success have marked the career of 
her sons in every clime ; but who of them, in the remembrance of his native 
land, is not ready to exclaim in the words of the poet, 

" \Miere'er I roam, whatever lands I see, 
My heart untravelled fondly turns to thee ! " 

With the highest respect, I remain, Gentlemen, 

Your obliged and obedient servant, 

GEORGE FOLSOM. 

To MARSHALL P. WILDER, Esq., and others, Committee, &c. 



\From Hon. Justin Butterfield.] 

Washington, Nov. 4, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your poUte invita- 
tion requesting my presence at the " Festival of the Sons of New 
Hampshire," to take place at Boston, on the seventh instant. 

While I regret that it will be out of my power to comply with 
your request, I am gratified that the opportunity is afforded me of 
expressing my respect and affection for the land of my birth and 
the scenes of my early home. 

New Hampshire has cause to be proud of her sons, a hardy, 
enterprising, intelligent, and law-abiding race. They acted a patriotic 
and distinguished part in the AYar of the Revolution, and in 1776 
led the van in forming a Constitution founded on the free suffrages 
of the people. 

In addition to this, she has produced Statesmen and Orators, who 
have commanded the admiration and won the plaudits of the civil- 
ized world. 

I propose this sentiment : 

" The Granite State and her gifted Sons!" 

I am, Gentlemen, 

With great respect, yours, very truly, 

JUSTIN BUTTERFIELD. 



APPENDIX. 143 

[From Col. E. F. Miller.] 

Salem, Nov. 6, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

Your letter of invitation to the " Festival of the Sons of New 
Hampshire," reached me this morning ; having been, in the first in- 
stance, forwarded to Temple, N. H. 

Allow me to thank you for the civility, so kindly extended to 
me, and to say, that it will give me great pleasure to attend on 
the occasion referred to. 

I am, very respectfully. 

Your ob't servant, 

E. F. mLLER. 

To RIessrs. JIARSHALL P. "WILDER, and others, 
Committee of Invitation. 



[F7-o7n James Bell, Esq.] 

Gilford, Nov. 1, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

I exceedingly regret that circumstances put it out of my power 
to meet, agreeably to your polite invitation, with the natives of 
New Hampshire, at their Festival in your City. 

Hoping that you and the friends whom you may meet, on an 
occasion so interesting, may derive from it all the pleasure it is so 
well calculated to afiford, I am, 

Yours, respectfully, 

JAMES BELL. 

To Messes. MARSHALL P. WILDER, and others, 
Committee of Invitation. 



[From T. R. Yocng, Esq.] 

Dover, N. H., Nov. 5, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

Your very polite letter of invitation, to be present at the " Fes- 
tival of the Sons of New Hampshire, to be holden in your City on 
the seventh instant," was handed me while on a flying visit through 
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144 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

the City, and I seize the first moment of leisure to return my most 
sincere acknowledgments for your kindness. 

Nothing would afford me greater gratification than to be pres- 
ent on an occasion so well calculated to elicit those warm and 
generous sentiments, which a people of one common origin cannot 
too highly cherish. 

And I most sincerely regret, that a matter of business which a 
common feeling of affection will not permit to be neglected, and 
which, I fear, will require more time than can be spared from my 
post of duty, prevents my availing myself of your kindness and 
hospitahty. 

I am, Gentlemen, very respectfully. 

Your ob't servant, 

T.R. YOUNG. 

To Messks. MARSHALL P. WILDER, and otlicrs, 
Committee of Invitation. 



[From Peyton R. Freeman, Esq.] 

Portsmouth, Nov. 3, 1849. 
Dear Sir: 

I have received a complimentary ticket of admission to the Fes- 
tival of the Sons of New Hampshire, at Boston, on the seventh instant, 
accompanied by a very polite note from the respectable Committee 
of Invitation. 

I regret that it will not be convenient for me to avail myself of 
the pleasure of meeting the emigrants from our native State on 
that occasion. My best wishes attend them. 

Have the goodness to communicate this, as my answer, if neces- 
sary, and as you think proper, and oblige 

Your friend and humble servant, 

PEYTON R. FREExAlAN. 

To CHARLES B. GOODRICH, Esq. 

Of Committee of Invitation. 



APPENDIX. 145 

[From Isaac 0. Barnes, Esq., late U. S. Marshal for Massachusetts.] 

Fraxconia Notch, N. IL, Nov. 5, 1849. 
Gentlemen : 

I have received your very polite note of invitation to the public 
Dinner, to be given the day after to-morrow, to and by the Sons of 
NeAv Hampshire, in the City of Boston. 

I regret, exceedingly, that it will probably be out of my power to 
attend. Circumstances will not very unlikely hinder me from 
leaving my home. 

At the moment, I had almost determined, at whatever hazai'd or 
cost, to make one of your party. " We cannot tell what we can- 
not do," I said to myself, " and it may be that one as old and 
unwieldy as myself even, can, by the wonderful improvement in 
locomotion, be carried to this city feast." I hinted the matter to 
my neighbors ; I longed to be with you. The thing was blown ; 
opposition was aroused ; all my neighbors were at war with me. 
They remonstrated, and entreated me not to leave. I was too 
deeply seated in their affections. I was the nucleus, the core, the 
heart of hearts of the whole Notch. I was bound to them by 
chains of adamant. We were melted and blended together; 
cemented as by fire, as were the Stony Siamese Twins; we 
were Lot and his hapless wife rolled into one pillar of salt. My 
absence w^ould create an awful chasm, which could never be filled. 
Would I tear and rend and rive myself from them ; would I become, 
as it were, a detached fragment, a disintegrated and unappreciable 
particle, an atom only, a vagabond, a mere erratic boulder ; a wan- 
derer and outcast upon the earth's surface. I was forced to yield. 
What else could be done? Could I have answered these, my 
ancient and dearest friends, except in the kindest terms ? I could 
not have said that at all events, and in defiance of all resistance, I 
will go, right or wrong ; that I would be bloicoi into ten thousand 
pieces ; that I woidd be blasted, ground to rubble, macadamized, 
pulverized, but I would go. No ! I submitted, and all is quiet at 
the Notch. But, confidentially and strictly between ourselves, I 
do verily believe, that I shall yet visit your fiir-famed New England 
metropolis, and you may say to our mutual friends, that they may 
yet see my famifiar face in State Street, making my own observa- 



146 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

tions upon Brokers and Note shavers ; or, possibly, meet me of a 
moonlight evening on your Common, peeping through the Elms, 
and lamenting the freedom of too ardent lovers, or looking after 
the purchasers of house lots in the Public Garden. 

But I feel confident that, at whatever period it may be my for- 
tune to visit your city, I shall not come among you as a stranger. 
I am proud to believe that, with most of your citizens, I enjoy an 
acquaintance more or less familiar. I doubt not but hats would be 
raised in quick succession along any of your public promenades of 
a week day ; or the pew doors would be freely opened of a Sunday, 
were I to present myself to the view of your citizens. The kind- 
ness and hospitality of the Boston people are well known, even up 
here among the Mountains. I have said that I would probably bo 
no stranger among you. I do not say so in the spirit of egotism, 
or personal vanity. Of the thousands who yearly pass my 
somewhat secluded and romantic residence, I beheve I may 
safely say, no one omits to tarry for a moment and pay me all due 
respect. 

How often have I seen the stageman, as his weary cattle were 
toiling up this rocky gorge, suddenly stop, and pointing with his 
•whip towards my place, cry out to the inmates of his coach, " There 
he is ; that is the Old Man." With what longing eyes and eager 
gaze did the whole bevy of his passengers catch, for the first time, 
a glimpse of my face. It would have amused, and, perhaps, some- 
times have instructed you, to hear the speculations and comparisons 
of each new visitor, after the first sensation of wonder had passed. 

Let me give you an example or two. I remember one man said 
that I was like the singing Monument of Thebes, my forehead, 
nose, Ups, and all ; and if I could give responses, and any body 
would take the trouble to ask them of me, he doubted not but I, 
like that strange structure of antiquity, would commend the virtues 
of filial afiection and gratitude to all the Sons and Daughters of 
New Hampshire. He was right, so I would. 

Another did me the honor to say, that my head would be an 
ornament to any pyramidal structure in all Egypt, and that old 
Cheops himself might well envy the symmetry of its form, or its 
great antiquity, He was also right in one respect ; I am indeed 
rather old, and beUeve I may safely lay claim to the title of that 



APPENDIX. 147 

somewhat uncertain but often invoked personage, called the " Old- 
est Inhabitant.''^ 

A third observer impressed upon his fellow travellers, as they 
passed along, that I looked more like a work of art, than the 
Sphynxes, or Cleopatra's Needle, or Pompcy's Pillar ; that there 
was so much finish, and such chiselling and c/ood keeping about 
me, that he thought Poivers, or G-reenough, or Dexter, or possibly 
Ball Hughes, had been up here working upon a contract. 

Another, an Antiquarian I imagined, for he had the look of a 
true virtuoso, very gravely said, that he took me for a /Saxon j^et- 
rifaction, and he believed I was the prototype and the first of that 
race who came from the Eastern continent ; " and I should not won- 
der," he said, " if it turned out after all that when he came, he 
brought along with him both the Dighton rock and also that won- 
derful specimen in mineralogy, a piece of which every body has 
stolen or desired to steal, called sometimes the Plymouth Rock, 
and sometimes the Blarney stone of America." 

These statements, which I beseech of you. Gentlemen, not to 
make public, I think ought to satisfy the world that I am entitled 
to some consideration, and have a fame which reaches beyond the 
narrow limits hitherto assigned me in Grafton County. I ought to 
have told you, however, in addition, that I have, like other distin- 
guished personages, been asked to sit for my picture ; I have done 
so often. I hope you have all procured a copy of my face ; if you 
have not, let me recommend you to purchase one, done in profile, 
most life-like and exact, by a Massachusetts friend, of the name of 
Oakes, an amiable and accomplished gentleman, and a skilful artist. 
I grieve to learn that he is now no more ; that he died about two 
years ago, leaving a large family, for whose benefit and to minister 
to whose necessities I take the liberty to ask you to make this pur- 
chase. 

Only for fear I am making this letter too long, I would be most 
happy to allude to one or two other topics, of some interest to every 
body, but I must forbear, except to say thus much generally, that 
I am myself no politician. I have never held office, or been a 
candidate even, though I am often told by my friends that I really 
possessed qualifications fully equal to many persons who have been 
promoted to the high places in the nation. 



148 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Be tliat as it maj, I am neither Whig, Democrat, nor a Free 
Soil man ; I am no partj-man in politics ; I am no sectarian in 
religion ; I am no dissembler in morals ; I quarrel with no man 
for his thoughts or opinions ; I envy no one his riches or honors, 
nor do I despise the poor man for his poverty. I never listen to flat- 
tery, nor incline my ear to the tale-hearer or slanderer. 

In short I can safely say, what I am afraid can be said of very 
few others, that I have never, to my knowledge, done an act, or 
entertained a thought, which will need repentance before the face 
of Heaven. 

Finally, I am, Gentlemen, 

Your obedient servant, 
The Old Man of the Mountain. 

To Messrs. JfArvSIIALL P. WILDER, and others, 

Committee of Invitation. , 



NAMES 



SONS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 



FESTIVAL. 



REGISTRY. 



The first column designates the namea of the Sons of New Hampshire at the FestiTal ; the second, 
their birth-place ; the third, the date of their remoyal to Massachusetts ; the fourth, their present 
business ; and the last one shows their present residence. 



ROCKINGHAM COUNTY. 

Names. TVhere from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Abbott, John E Portsmouth, . . 1840,. Merchant, Boston. 

Adams, John G Portsmouth, .. . 183 8,. Minister, Maiden. 

Adams, Benjamin. . . .Exeter, Merchant, Boston. 

Allen, Samuel R Salem, 1831,. Clothing Dealer, Somerville. 

Anderson, John Londonderry, . 1846,. Dry Goods, Roxbury. 

Ayers, Ira Portsmouth, . . 1827,. Barber, Boston. 

Butler, Josiah "W Deerfield, 1 842, . Grocer, " 

Boles, John Salem, 1806, . Housewright, " 

Bennet, Cotton Newmarket, Beverly. 

Burpee, Nathaniel. . . .Deerfield, 1825,.Brickmaker, Cambridge. 

Briard, Oliver Portsmouth, .. .1825,. Merchant, Boston. 

Bigelow, D. Jackson . . Portsmouth, ... 1 844, . Bookseller, " 

Blunt, Charles E Portsmouth, . . 1846,. U. S. Army, " 

Brodhead, Josiah A.. .Newmarket, . .1842,. Bookseller, " 

Brown, Josiah Stratham, 1821,. Carpenter, " 

Butler, De Witt C Deerfield, 1 842, . Grocer, " 

Brown, Ira P N. Hampton, Carpenter, Lynn. 

Blasdel, John C Portsmouth, . .1845, Boston. 

Brown, Isaac E Windham, 1837,. Merchant, Charlestown. 

Brodhead, J. C Newmarket,. . . 1827,. Clerk, Portsmouth. 

Beck, Gideon Portsmouth, . .1836,. Auctioneer, Boston. 

Brodhead, Josiah A.. .Newmarket, .. .1842,. Bookseller, '■ 

Bachelder, Albert J.. .Northwood,. . . 1841,. Carpenter, " 

Badger, J. L Portsmouth, . ..1842,. Ship wr't and Caulker,. " 

Bell, A. W Portsmouth, . .1843 Dorchester. 

Ball, Charles W Portsmouth, . . 1 842, . Suffolk Bank, Salem. 

Ball, E. W Portsmouth, . . 1843,. Dry Goods, Somerville. 

Ball, T. M Portsmouth, . .1829,. Merchant, Boston. 

Bartlett, B. C Nottingham, ... 1 845, . Attorney at Law, Chelsea. 

Barker, Charles A.. . .Newington, Trader, Charlestown. 

Barnes, Benjamin H..Portsmouth,.. .1817,. Teller in Bank, Chelsea. 

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152 NEAV HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Names. 'UTiere from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Basford, Henry Chester, 1834. . W. I. Goods, Iloxbury. 

Bazin, Wm. C Portsmouth, . . 1818,. Clerk, P. Boston. 

Bean, James A Eye, 1839,. Furniture Dealer,. ... " 

Chase, Theodore Portsmouth,. . . 1835, .Merchant, " 

Chase, Charles Deerfield, 1836,. Physician, Chelsea. 

Chapman, Francis L. . Ne^nnai-ket, ... 1 831 , . Carriage Builder, Cambridge. 

Cotton, Nathaniel. . . .Portsmouth, .. .181 7,. Lumber Surveyor,. ... " 

Crockett, Geo. W Northwood, . . .1819,. West India Goods,. . . .Boston. 

Clement, Jeremiah. . . Chester, 1841,. Grocer, " 

Chapman, E. A Newmarket,. . . 1 826, . Carnage Builder, Cambridge. 

Crane, T.Farrar Exeter 1844,. At School, Boston. 

Claggett, J. Biu-t Portsmouth, ... 1 846, . Attorney at Law, " 

Chadwick, Eben'r Exeter, 1810,. Merchant, " 

Cogswell, George. . . .Atkinson, 1830,. Physician Bradford. 

Crocker, H. B Dcrry, 1833,.Housewright, Boston. 

Cogswell, Francis. . . .Atkinson, 1842,. Cash. Andover Bk. . . .Andover. 

Carswell, Charles W. .. Northwood, . . . 1844,. Merchant, Boston. 

Cheever, John Portsmouth, . .1824,. Physician, Charlestown. 

Chapman, Faulkner. . . Newmarket, . . 1835, . Carriage Painter, " 

Cheever, Joseph Portsmouth, . . 1847,. Physician, Boston. 

Cochran, Nelson Windham. .... 1 842, . Shoe Manufacturer, . . . Melrose. 

Clintock, Wm. F. M.. .Portsmouth, . .1837,. Dealer in Vegetables, . .Boston. 

Clark, William Portsmouth, . .181 9,. Physician, " 

Crockett, Ephraim. . . .Stratham, . . . .1823.. Furniture Carver, .... " 

Cheney, John E Londonderry, . 1832, . Stable Keeper, " 

Cheever, John Haven . Portsmouth, . . .1840,. Merchant, " 

Clarke, Moses Atkinson, Physician, Cambridge. 

Cochran, Jonathan . . . Windham, Land Surveyor, Maiden. 

Caverly, Charles Portsmouth, . . 1815,. Collector, Boston. 

Dudley, E. G Kaj-mond, 1841,. Attorney at Law, " 

Dudley. Benjamin F.. .Raymond, . . . .1843,. Coppersmith, " 

Drake, Francis S Northwood, . . .1829,. Book Keeper, " 

Dearborn, Jeremiah. .Portsmouth,.. .1824,. Merchant, Lynn. 

Dow, George Salem, 1 841 , . Dry Goods, Boston. 

Dennett, Jeremiah A.. Portsmouth, .. .1836,. Paper Hangings, " 

Dearborn, Nathaniel. .Portsmouth, .. . 1 790, . Engraver, " 

Dearborn, H. A. S. . . . Exeter, Mayor, Roxbury. 

Dearboni, John M. . . . Portsmouth, Range and Furnace, . . Boston. 

Dearborn, S. Candia, 1840,. Merchant, Melrose. 

Dearborn, E. B N. Hampton,. .1849, Boston. 

Ditson, Thomas Portsmouth, . .1814,. Engineer " 

Dudley, Moses G Raymond, 1845.. U. S. Coast Survej-,. . .Salem. 

Dinsmore, Robert Chester, 1 847, . Hotel Keeper, Boston. 

Dearborn. Nathaniel. .Kensington, Farmer, Lynn. 

Ewins, Alexander Salem, 1843, . Trader, Boston. 

Eastham, Wm. W Exeter, 1835,. Brush Dealer, " 

Emery, Geo. Francis . .Portsmouth, .. . 1828,. Printer, " 

Eustis, W. T 1809,. Merchant, " 



ROCKINGHAM COUNTY. 153 

Names. MTiere from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Easthara, Charles. . . .Exeter, 1832,. Dentist, Boston. 

Emerson, Frederick. .Hampstead, . . .1823,. Instructor, " 

Eastman, E. T Hampstead, .. . 1847,. Student of Medicine.. . " 

Eaton, Closes, Jr Candia. 1 846. . Trader, " 

Eastman, J. T Hampstead. . . . 1845,. Dry Goods, •• 

Emerson, Elijah C. . .Chester, 1834.. Merchant, Brookline. 

Emerson, N.E Chester, 1847.. Produce, Boston. 

French, James S. Hampton, . . 1840.. Pub. and Stationer,. . . " 

Fitz, Daniel Sando\\Ti, 1826.. Preacher of Gospel,. . .Ipswich. 

French, Abner Sandown 1837,. Dry Goods, Boston. 

Ford, Ebenezer Nottingham. . .181 9,. Blacksmith, Charlestown. 

Frj-e. Isaac W Portsmouth, . . 182'.),. Printer, Boston. 

Frost. James M Newcastle, . . . . 1841,. Carpenter, " 

Folsom, Charles Exeter, 1810,. Lib. Boston Ath'm.. . .Car bridge. 

Fields, George A Portsmouth, . .1833,. Bookbinder, Boston. 

Fields, James T Portsmouth, Pub. and Bookseller,. . " 

Fernald, N. Mai-shall. .Portsmouth, . . 1847,. Th'd & Needle Store,. . " 

Furber, Page Northwood, Provision Dealer, " 

Furber, Wm. H. H. . . Northwood, Fr't Deal. F. H. Mk't, . . " 

French, Moses S Epping, 1833,. Conductor R. R Watertown. 

Fitz, Luther Chester, 1847,. Produce, Charlestown. 

Fitts, Levi B Chester, 184l,.Hackman, Bo>ton. 

French, Geo. P Sandown, 1 845, . Merchant, '• 

Frost, Horatio Newcastle, . . . .1843, . Painter, " 

Gage, Tenney K Londonderry, . 1 843, . Dry Goods, " 

Gordon, Geo. Wm Exeter, " 

Gookin, Samuel H Portsmouth, . .1836,. Merchant, " 

Gordon, John Salem, 1822,. Farmer, Brighton. 

George, Leander Londonderry, . 1842,. Boot Maker, Braintree. 

Gilman, Charles J Exeter, Attorney, 

Gilman, Charles J. G.. Exeter, Attorney, 

Grant, George Portsmouth, . .1823,. Provision Dealer, ... .Boston. 

Greene, M. C Deerfield, 1 842, . Physician and Surg.. . . " 

Hobbs, Wm. J. C N. Hampton, . . 1 837, . Produce, " 

Healey, Mark Kensington,. . . 1811,. Merchant, Lynn. 

Hazelton, Isaac H Chester, 1826,. Mason, Boston. 

Hill, Oliver B Northwood, . . . 1835,. Independent Post,. ... " 

Haj-ford, Riley Salem, 1805,. Grocer, " 

Hill, Wm. H Portsmouth, . . 1832,. Stationer, " 

Hayford, William Derry. 1816,. Brick Layer, " 

Hall, Timothy Portsmoutli, ... 1 844, . Com. Merchant, " 

Haven. George W Portsmouth, ... 1 840. . Author, " 

Hill. J. Haven Northwood, . . . 1839,. :Merchant Tailor, " 

Hall, Hiram Chester, 1833..Housewright, Roxbury. 

Hill, Joseph H Northwood, . . .1842,. Tailor, Boston. 

Hinds, A. M Greenland, Provision Dealer,. ... " 

Hill, George Portsmouth, . . 181 6,. Merchant, Eoxbury. 

Hickey, T. Hendee. . .Portsmouth, . .1845,. Dry Goods, Boston. 



154 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Names. Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Hills, JohnR Chester, 1842,. Clerk, Boston. 

Hayes, James A Newcastle,. . . .1837,. Merchant, " 

Hylan, Sumner Londonderry, Machinist, Lowell. 

Hobbs, M. H Londonderry, 

Hobbs, Simon L N. Hampton,. .1848,. Publisher, Boston. 

Hobbs, J. W.Y N. Hampton, .. 1837,. Staging, " 

Haley, J. J Epping, 1839,. Merchant, '• 

Holman, Joseph F.. . .Portsmouth, . .1840, .Apothecary, " 

Hill, Walter E Portsmouth, . . 1 828, . Dry Goods, " 

Hilton, John Newmarket,.. .1819,. Trader, Lynn. 

Hi ton, John F Newmarket, . . 1821,. Lynn and Boston Ex. . " 

Harris, Charles C Portsmouth, . .1847, . Teacher, Boston. 

Hall, Orriu Candia, Grocer, Cambridge. 

Jenness, J. S Deerficld, 1835,. Imp'r Dry Goods, Boston. 

Kennard, M. P Portsmouth, . .1836,. Merchant, " 

Kennard, Oliver P., Jr. . Portsmouth, . . 1 840, . Sliip Chandler, " 

Kennard, William H. . Portsmouth, . . 1 840, . Clerk, " 

Kennard, John S Portsmouth, . . 1844,. Dry Goods, " 

Kennard, Geo. W Portsmouth, . .1846,. Clerk, " 

Knowles, Wm. J Chester, Carpenter, " 

Knowlton, John B Portsmouth, . .1836,. Merchant, " 

Kelley, W. R Exeter, 1805,. Merchant Tailor, " 

Locke, Samuel B Newmarket,. . .1845,. Junk Dealer, Melrose. 

Leavitt, Benson Hamp'n Falls,. 1826,. Merchant, Boston. 

Little, Nicholas Salem, 1813,. Blacksmith, " 

Little, E. H Hampstead, . . .1820, . Mechanic, " 

Locke, Oliver Kingston, 1835,. Merchant, " 

Leavitt, John L Exeter, 1829,. Manufacturer, " 

Locke, Cornelius E Portsmouth, . . 1 848, . Clerk, " 

Little, Walter Hampstead, .. .1825, " 

McGregor, James. . . .Londonderry, ..181 5,. Merchandise, " 

Mason, Robert M Portsmouth, .. . 1 840, . Merchant, " 

Marsh, Thomas J Exeter, 1832,. Public Store Keeper,. .Lynn. 

Moulton, C. H Portsmouth, .. .1844,. Printer, Boston. 

Morrison, Alva Windham, . . . .1826, .Woolen Manufac'r,. . .Braintree. 

Miller, Moses Portsmouth,.. .181 6,. Inspector of Fish, Boston. 

Mann, N. P Portsmouth, .. . 1819,. Fish Dealer, " 

McGregor, Alex Derry, 1 826, . Hotel Keeper, " 

Merrill, Parker S. Hampton,. . 1848,. Clerk, " 

Merrill, Geo. S S. Hampton,. . 1849,. Clerk, " 

Merrill, Nathan S. Hampton,. .1833,. Bookseller, Charlestown. 

Melcher, Sylvester. . . .Portsmouth, Lowell. 

Mudge, A. C Portsmouth, . .1839,. Dry Goods, Boston. 

Marden, William Portsmouth, . . 181 9,. Printer, " 

Melcher, Wm. N Portsmouth, . .1830,. Express, Lynn. 

Merrill, Benj. L Portsmouth, . .1841,. Trader, Boston. 

Marden, Jefferson C. .Portsmouth, . .1831,. Carpenter, " 

MeClure, David Raymond, 1 829, . Trader, Cambridge. 



ROCKINGHAM COUNTY. 155 

Names. Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

McAlvin, John B Wiiidliam, 181 9,. Paymaster Siiff. Co. . .Lowell. 

Nutting, Benjamin F.. Portsmouth, Artist, Boston. 

Norris, Josej^h B Decrfield , 1835, . West India Goods, ... " 

Norris, Samuel M Newmarket,. . . 1845,. Clerk, " 

Noyes, Prancis Atkinson, 1837, . Manufacturer, N. Danvcrs. 

Packer, George Nottingham, ...1817,. Morocco Manufae'r, . . Boston. 

Parrott, Wm. W Portsmouth, .. .1836,. Merchant, Gloucester. 

Patten, C. B Kingston, Clerk, Boston. 

Plumer, William Epping, 1847,. Attorney at Law, Camhridge. 

Parker, William Windham, 1827,. Mason, Boston. 

Plummcr, Enoch Londonderry, .1821,. Bridge Builder, " 

Peirce, Joshua R Greenland, Student, Harvard Col'g. 

Prescott, B. T Brentwood, . . .1827,. Dentist, Boston. 

Pike, A. R. C Portsmouth, . . 1835,. Salesman, 

Philbrick, John D Deerfield, 1842,. Teach. Quincy School, " 

Plumer, Avery, Jr.. . .Portsmouth, . .1832,. Merchant, " 

Parker, Francis E Portsmouth, . . 1846,. Lawyer, " 

Parrott, Wm. F Portsmouth, . . 1844,. Merchant, " 

Pike, E. W Hamp'n Falls, . 1830, . Carpenter, " 

Paige, Charles E N. Hampton, . . 1829, . Wood and Coal Dealer, " 

Prince, J. M Candia, 1846,. Insurance Broker,. . . . Chelsea. 

Pickering, Wash'n.. . .Portsmouth, . .1835,. Car Builder, Boston. 

Pickering, D.N Newington, . . .1831,. Car Builder, " 

Patten, Ichabod B Kingston, 1843, .Pharmaceutist, " 

Parrott, E. G Portsmouth, . .1849,.U. S. Navy, Boston Station. 

Page, Horatio Portsmouth, Cincinnati. 

Pickering, Winthrop. .Newington, 

Pinkerton, J. M Derry, 1845,. Attorney at Law, Boston. 

Rowc, Sherlnirn Candia, 1 827, . Broker, " 

Robinson, Shadrack. .Greenland, 1832,. Flour Dealer, " 

Rust, Samuel Exeter, Tin Plate Worker, Lynn. 

Robinson, Frederick. .Exeter, Warden State Prison,. Charlestown. 

Rollins, N. F Stratham, 1831,. Carpenter, Cambridge. 

Sise, Albert F Portsmouth, . ..1848,. Clerk, Boston. 

Smith, Hiram D Candia, 1847,. Clerk, " 

Stevens, Ebcnezer Plaistow, 1821,. Physician, " 

Sweetser, Isaac Chester, 1837,. Paints and Drugs, " 

Sheafe, Daniel R Portsmouth, ... 1 830, . Merchant, " 

Shaw, Edward Hampton, 1822,. Architect, " 

Swasey, Charles E.. . .Exeter, Clerk, Danvcrs. 

Stevens, James Newcastle, 181 6,. Plane Maker, Boston. 

Shackford, John E.. . .Portsmouth, . .1846,. Merchant, Roxbury. 

Stacy, M. P Portsmouth, . . 1845,. Merchant, Cambridge. 

Smith, D. D Portsmouth, Physician, Boston. 

Sise, John Portsmouth, Clerk, " 

Shirley, Wm. W Chester, Lamp Lighter, " 

Swasey, Joseph L Exeter, 1829.. Clerk B. & P. R. R. . . . " 

Simcs, Joseph Portsmouth, . . 1827, . Merchant, " 



156 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Names, Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Shapley, F. A Portsmouth, Clerk, Bcston. 

Stevens, Edward C .Brentwood, . . . 1849,. Carpet Dealer, " 

Safford, Geo. W Exeter, 1 841 , . Book Keeper, " 

Sanborn, Alfred S Exeter, Carpentei', " 

Sanborn, Greenleaf C. Exeter, 1824. . Carpenter, " 

Sheafe, Mark W Portsmouth, . .1840,. Farmer, Brookline. 

..Seaward, John M Portsmouth, Merchant, Natick. 

Shaw, E. D Hampton, . . . .1814,. Blacksmith, Boston. - 

Sargent, Charles "Windham, .... 1 830, . Teamster, " 

Sargent, James Windham, .... 1 838, . Teamster, " 

Shillaber, Benj. P Portsmouth, . . 1832,. Printer, " 

Sleeper, Daniel C Sandown, 1848,. Provision Dealer, .... " 

Senter, Wm. H Portsmouth, . . 1 847, . Dry Goods, " 

Stevens, John Plaistow, 1 820, . Pliysician, " 

Stockman, Charles W. . Hampton, 1 829, . Printer, Charles town. 

Stockman, J. M Hampton, 1829,. Wood Turner, " 

Tucker, Boswell D Plaistow, 1840,. Mason, Boston. 

Tucker, Stephen Plaistow, 1840,.Sup't Public Lands, . . " 

Todd, Isaac F Atkinson, 1847,. Accountant, " 

Turell, Garland Portsmouth, . . 1843,. Broker, W. Cambridge. 

Towle, J. Warren .... Epping, Student, Harvard Col'g. 

Thurston, Caleb Exeter, Wharfinger, 

Thurston, James Newmarket,.. . 1 829, . ClergjTnan, Billerica. 

Taylor, David Epping, 1818,. Manufacturer, Lynn. 

Todd, P. P Atkinson, Counsellor, Blackstone. 

Tuttle, Hugh H Portsmouth, . . 1 829. . Printer, Charlestown. 

Tucker, James I Kingston, 1833,. Gents. Furn'g Store,. .Boston. 

Webster, David L Portsmouth, ... 1 832, . Leather Dealer, " 

Webster, Charles E. . . Portsmouth, ... 1 838, . Merchant, " 

Weeks, Wm. A Portsmouth, ... 1 833, . U. S. Despatch Ag't, . . " 

Waldron, Samuel W. . Portsmouth, ... 1 834. . Merchant, " 

Webster, Fletcher. . . .Portsmouth,.. .181 6,. Lawyer, " 

Walker, George S Portsmouth, . . 1846,. Book Keeper, " 

Walker, Seth W Portsmouth, . .1836, . Clerk, " 

Woodbury, Chas. L.. .Portsmouth, . .1845,. Counsellor at Law,... " 

Wendell, Jacob, Jr Portsmouth, Clerk, " 

Waldron, A. A Portsmouth, Merchant, " 

Walker, W. Augustus . Portsmouth, . . 1 843, . Fancy Goods, " 

Walker, James P Portsmouth, . . 1845,. Bookseller, " 

Weeks, James H Portsmouth, . . 1831,. Merchant, " 

Weeks, Stephen Greenland, 1 834, . Trader, " 

Wise, Wm. G Portsmouth, . . 1 838, . Ca.shier Manuf g Co.. .Lowell. 

Wiggin, Charles E Newmarket, .. .1828,.Crock'y &Pap.Hang.. .Boston. 

Webster, John G Portsmouth, . . 1840,. Leather Dealer, Maiden. 

Wiffgin, Joshua D.. . .Northwood. . . .1844, .Bl'k and WTiitesmith,.. Boston. 

Wright, Edmund, Jr. . . Hampstead Whai-finger, Cambridge. 

Worthen, T. F Candia, Cooper, Charlestown. 

Waldron, L. W., Jr. . . . Portsmouth, Boston. 



niLLSBORO' COUNTY. 157 

Names. Where froin. Date. Business. Present Resiaence. 

Wells, George W Hamp'n Falls,. 1827,. Pro vision Dealer, ... Chelsea. 

Wentworth. Jacob S.. .Exeter 1836,. Morocco Manufact'r, . Lynn. 

Walker, W.J Portsmouth, . . 1816,. Capt. U. S. Navy, Boston. 

Wiggin, Robert P S. Newmarket, . 1 842, . Import. Leaf Tobac. . 

Waldron, N. Sheafe . . . Portsmouth, . . 1 840, . Maj. Marines, U.S.N. . " 



mLLSBORO' COUNTY. 

Aikin, John Bedford, Manufacturer, Lowell. 

Averill, J. P. Mount Vernon,1848,- Teacher, Charlestown. 

Ames, Samuel T. Brookline, 18.37, -Merchant, Medford. 

Abbott, J. H. Wilton, 1 833, • Teacher, Boston. 

Andrews, Abraham- • -Hillsboro', 1822, -Instructor, Charlestown. 

Appleton, Samuel- - - -New Ipswich, -1794, -Merchant, Boston. 

Aikin, Calvin Deering, 1 833, • Wood and Coal, " 

Andrews, Charles Hillsboro', 1 836, • Grocer, " 

Abbott, Timothy B.- - -Wilton, 1841, -Mason, » 

Batchclder, William • -New Ipswich, Farmer, Andover. 

Burnap, S. G. Temple, 1826, -Physician, Holliston. 

Barnard, R. M. Amherst, 1805,- Grocer, Boston. 

Butler, B. Pelham, 1843,- Attorney at Law, • • • " 

Bowers, Le^d Peterboro', 1843, -Clerk, " 

Blair, L. New Boston, • - 1 845, - Merchant, " 

Barnes, Isaac 0. Bedford, 1 835, - Clerk U. S. Ct. Court, " 

Batchelder, Horace H. - Francestown, • - 1 835, • W. I. Goods, " 

Butler, Caleb Pelham, Lawyer, Grotoo. 

Boynton, James Milford, 1 824, - Jewelry & fan. goods, Boston. 

Burton, H. J. Wilton, 1 833, • Clothing, " 

Bell, Joseph Bedford, 1842, " 

Barnes, John Hillsboro', 1 832, - Messenger, Cambridge. 

Batchelder, Eugene- - -New Ipswich, •1844, -Lawyer, " 

Burton, Warren Wilton, Clergyman, Worcester. 

Batchelder, John M.- -New Ipswich, -1849, -Civil Engineer, W.Cambridge. 

Brooks, Cyrus New Ipswich, -181 9, -Printer, Cambridge. 

Bowers, L. K. Hancock, 1848, -Merchant, Medford. 

Bacon, B. N. Hancock, 1824,-Glerk, Boston. 

Barr, Geo. L. New Ipswich, - 1 844, - Merchant, Medford. 

Barnard, Oliver T. - - - - Weare, 

Barnard, John M. Hollis, 1822, -Distiller, Boston. 

Betton, Ninian Clark- -New Bo.ston,- -1802,- Counsellor at Law,- • " 

Butterfield, John A.- - -Nashua, 1848,- Clerk, 

Burton, Andrew N.- - -Wilton, 1837, -Dry Goods, " 

Barnard, David Bedford, 1822, -Merchant, " 



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NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 



Names. 
Bailey, Albon H.- • 
Barns, Chas. E.--- 
Barnard, Joseph- • • 

Cheney, B. P. 

Cragin, Daniel- • - - 
Cristy, William C- 
Cooledge, Lemuel A. 

Clark, Peter 

Chickering, Jonas 

Cluistie, Frank B.- • • -Antrim, 

Cummings, Charles W.Amherst 



■WTiere from. Date. 

• Unity, 1844, 

• Nashua, 

• New Boston,- -1826, 

-Hillsboro', 18-38, 

•Temple, 1832, 

• New Boston, ••ISIS, 

• Hillsboro', 1824, 

• Lyndeboro', 

• New Ipswich, •1818, 
-1843, 
-1824, 



Champney, Edward W.New Ipswich, - • 1 835, 
Champney, George M.New Ipswich, •I 826, 

Carter, Oliver Peterboro', 1826, 

Champney, Henry T.^ New Ipswich, •I 839, 

Champney, Benj. New Ipswich,- 1834,' 

Clark, William New Boston,- -1842, 

Cooke, Josiah P. New Ipswich,- 1809, 

Dudkv, Thos. E. Weare, 1834,- 

Davis, Geo. H. Hancock, 

Dearborn, C. E. Nashua, 1843, 

Dutton, Benjamin- - - -Hillsboro', - - ■ •1826,' 

DriscoU; C. Francestown, - -1814, 

Duncklee, John Amherst, 

Dearborn. William- • •Bedford, 1820, 

Dodge, J C. Temple, 1838,. 

Duncklee, H. L. Francestown,- -1847, 

Dodge, G. C. New Boston, 

Daniels, William Brookline, - - 

Dickey, William ^Manchester, - 

Dearborn, William - • - Bedford, ■ 

Eaton, Albert Goftsto^-n, 

Edwards, J. F. Temple. 1824, 

Emerson, D. E. Weare, 

Emerson, Samuel P.- -Amherst, 

Fairfield, Geo. C. New Boston,- • 1847, 

French, Leonard Amherst, 1805, 

Foster, John Hudson, 1836,- 

Fisher, Mark Francestown,- -1836, 

Field, J., Jr. Peterboro', 1832, 

French, Ephraim Amherst, - - - • -1800, 

Field, A. H. Peterboro', 

Farley, N. W. HoUis, 1847,- 

Forsaith, E. W. Lyndeboro',- • •1837,^ 

Fish, Moses W. Mason, 

Felt, David F. Temple, 1 835, • 

Farrar, Timothy New Ipswich, •I 844, 

French. Geo. Wm. Bedford, 1846,. 



•1845, 
• 1831, 
•1825, 



Business. Present Residence. 

•Reporter, Boston. 

•Machinist, Lowell. 

• Distiller, Boston. 

• Express Man, " 

- Grocer, " 

- Provisions, CharlestOAvn. 

- Grocer, Boston. 

- Spending past eam'gs " 

• Piano Forte Maker, • • " 

• Landlords' Agent, • - • " 

• Bl'k and Whitesmith, " 

• Dry Goods, Wobura. 

•Dry Goods, " 

• Wood and Coal, • • - • Boston. 

- Clerk, " 

-Artist, " 

-Clerk, Lynn. 

- Counsellor, Boston. 

Drug Dealer, " 

-Piano Forte Maker,- • " 

• Dentist, " 

•Grocer, " 

• Merchant, " 

•Trader, Brighton. 

- Gentleman, Brookline. 

■Dry Goods, Boston. 

■ Stove Dealer, " 

• Stable Keeper, " 

- Cooper, " 

• Teamster, " 

Farmer, Brookline. 

- Sup't Alms House, - - Charlestown. 

• Housewright, Brookline. 

• Merchant, Dorchester. 

• Machinist, Medford. 

• W. I. Goods, Boston. 

• Merchant, " 

Wine Merchant, • • • • " 

• Flour Dealer, " 

• Hides and Leather, • • W. Cambridge. 

• W. L Goods, Boston. 

- Com. Merchant, " 

Merchant, " 

Clerk, " 



Teacher of Music, - - - S. Weymouth. 
Counsellor at Law,- -Boston. 
Merchant, Danvers. 



HILLSBORO COUNTY. 



169 



Names. Where from. Date. 

Guild, Henry C. • • • • ■•Francestown,- -1844, 

Greele, Samuel Wilton, 1814,- 

Gould, Charles D. New Ipswich, •1822, 

Gilbert, John, Jr. Hillsboro', 1825, 

Gould, J. B. Hollis, 1824,- 

Gregg, Samuel New Boston,- •1840,- 

Gould, Jacob S. Lyndeboro'.- • •1836,- 

Gregg, Alexander- • • -New Boston, • •1827,- 
Gould, Augustus A. • • New Ipswich, • • 1 822, • 

Gregg, Samuel Peterboro', • • • •1799,' 

Grimes, D. E. Lyndeboro', 

Goodale, Geo. "W. Deering, 1 835, • 

Gooda'e, Albert Deering, 1836,' 

Goodale, H. L. Deering, 1 838, • 

Goodale, Levi Deering, 1 840, ■ 

Gilmore, Armanda • • • Merrimac, • • • • 1 834, • 

Gould, F. A. Hollis, 1831,- 

Gould, Nathaniel D. 1818,- 

Hutchinson, A. B. Milford, 1828,- 

Hutchinson, Jesse- • • -Milford, 1834,- 

Hutchinson. A. F. Milford, , - 

Hastings, William Mt. Vernon, - -1834,- 

Holmes, Oliver Francestown, .. 1841,- 

Hale, Theodore P.. • - • • Hollis, 1834,- 

Hadley, David B.- • - -Goffstown, .- 

Howe, George Milford, 

Hadley, Thomas J. ■ - -Hancock, 1834,- 

Hutchinson, T. M. Francestown, -1834,- 

Hildreth, C. B. Amherst, 1822,- 

Holmes, Henry D.- -- -Francestown, -18.34,- 

Jameson, N. W. C. - • • . Antrim, 1 835, - 

Kendall, Timothy C. Amherst, 1815,- 

Kendrick, John Amherst, 1 838, ■ 

Kendall, Joshua Hillsboro', 1815,- 

Kittredge, Alva Mt. Vernon, • -1820,- 

Knight, Samuel G.,- - -Hancock, 1847,- 

Kittredge, Jesse Merrimac, - - • -1828,- 

Kidder, Abner C. Hudson, 1 828, • 

Kendall, Salma Mason, 1 839, • 

Lawrence, William- - -Hudson, 1811,- 

Lewis, Charles Milford, 1814,- 

Lord, Henry C. Amherst, 1 846, - 

Lord, Joseph L. Amherst, 1847, 

Lovejoy, Philip Amherst, 1826, 

Lawrence, Thomas - • - Bedford, 1 805, 

Locke, Edward Peterboro', 1822, 

Lovejoy, John Wilton, 1810, 

21 



Business, 
Dry Goods, - 



Present Residence. 
-Boston, 



Bookseller, " 

Grocer, " 

Clerk, Charlestown. 

Physician, B )ston. 

Iron Merchant, Cambridge. 

Coal Dealer, Medford. 

Physician, Boston. 

Chair Maker, " 

Machinist, Lowell. 

Trader, Dorchester. 

Stable Keeper, Boston. 

Provision Dealer, - • • " 

Teamster, " 

Restorator, " 

Merchant, " 

Teacher of Music, • • " 

Grocer, " 

Stove Dealer, " 

W.L Goods, Lynn. 

Inn Holder, Boston, 

Flour and Grain, - - • • '• 

Dry Goods, " 

Wheelwright, Cambridge. 

Piano Forte Maker,- -Roxbury, 
Piano Forte Maker,- Boston. 

Dry Goods, " 

Carpenter, " 

Carpenter, " 

Hats and Furs, " 

Hides and Leather,-- " 

Grocer, Dorchester. 

Machinist, Boston. 

Furniture, " 

Dentist, " 

Trader, " 

Provisions, " 

Flour Dealer, Chelsea. 

Porter and Ale, Boston. 

- Counsellor at Law, • • Maiden. 
-Counsellor at Law, • -Boston, 

• Counsellor at Law, • • " 

• Stable Keeper, " 

• Carpenter, " 

-Clothing, " 

• Morocco Manuf 'r, • ■ - Lynn, 



160 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Names AVTiere from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

McNiel, Joiin Hillsboro', . . • • 1 830, • Surveyor Customs, • • Boston. 

Miller, Stcphea Peterboro', • • ■ • 1827, -Pulpit & Stair Bld'r,- Cambridge. 

McAllister, James • • ■ -Bedford, 1804,- Sup't Pub. Buildg's,- Boston. 

Morse, Mason F ancestown, - 1 834, • Grocer, " 

Merriam, Wra. J. Mason, 1833, -Mas. Tr'n, 0. C. E. K. 

Merrill, Wm. W. Goffstown, • - • - 1842, 

Morrison, John H. Peterboro', Clergyman, Milton. 

Morse, L. B. Francestown, - 1842, -Wood and Coal, Boston. 

Merrill, F. G. Goffstown, 1849, " 

Mack, Sewell G. Wilton, .Merchant, Lowell. 

Morrison, James Peterboro', .Physician, Baltimore. 

Morgan, David Wilton, 1 837, • Counsellor at Law, • • • Boston. 

Nichols, Rodney Hillsboro',- • • -1846, -Machinist, " 

Newell, Chas. Henry- • Wilton, 1844, - Com. Merchant, Charlestowu. 

Parker, William A.- - -Hudson, 1811, -Printer, Boston. 

Parker, William W. - -Wilton, 1845, -Clerk, Customs, Woburn. 

Piper, Solomon Temple, 1810, -Wood Wiiartinger,- -Boston. 

Prentice, William H.- -New Ipswich, - 1803,- Wood Wharfinger, • • " 

Patterson, Lucius- - - -Nashville, - • • -1842, -Prison Officer, Charlestown. 

Peabody, A. S. Milton, 1845,-Broker, Boston. 

Parker, D. M. Bedford, 1842, -Dentist, " 

Patten,James Temple, 1814,-Wine Dealer, Brookline. 

Pollard, Luther Hudson, 1831, -Truckman, Boston. 

Page, Joseph W. Goffstown, 1 838, - Gardener,. Eoxbury. 

Peabody, Ephraim • • • • Wilton, 1 845, - Minister, Boston. 

Proctor, Moses HoUis, 1 836, - Grocer, W. Cambridge. 

Parker, Eben Antrim, Inn Holder, Charlestown. 

Patten, -Jonathan Temple, 181 6, -Provision Dealer,- - -Boston. 

Page,Chauncy Decring, 1831, -Carpenter, " 

Pollard, Wan-en Hudson, 1 845, - Stove Dealer, Somerville. 

Palmer, Stephen G.- -Goffstown, 1843,-Dry Goods, Boston. 

Parkhurst, Wm. A. • • - Wilton, 1 843, - Clerk, '< 

Patten, J. G. Nashua, 1847, - Market, " 

Preston, Thomas B. • -New Ipswich, - 1833, -Dry Goods, Charlestown. 

Raymond, J. P. Nashua, 1829,- Grocer, Boston. 

Riddle, Isaac N. Bedford, 1844, -Clerk, Customs, " 

Riddle, Silas A. Bedford, 1846,- Clerk, " 

Richardson, Jacob • • - - Granfield, 1 822, - Agent, " 

Richardson, Samuel • -Peterboro', .Physician, Watcrtown. 

Ray, P. Woodbury • - -Amherst, 181 8, -Broker, Boston. 

Read, William Amherst, 1 848, • Physician, " 

Richardson, W. H. H.- Amherst, 1836,- Woolen Goods, " 

Stevens, Luther Hillsboro', 1800, -Copperplate Printer,- " 

Steele, J. T. Antrim, 1845, •Hats,Caps, and Furs,- " 

Swallow, Calvin Mason, 1835, -Provisions, " 

Sears, Thomas E. • • - • Deering, 1848, -Dry Goods, " 

Shedd, C. F. Hollis, 1846, -Dry Goods, " 



CHESHIRE COUNTY. 161 



Names. \Vhere from. Date. BusincBS. Present Residence. 

Sargent, BoJwell LyuJeboro', • • • 1814, • Trader, Boston. 

Stone, P. J. Weare, 1825, • W. I. Goods, Cliarlcstown. 

Smith, Ebenezer Hollis, ISOi,- Merchant, South Woburn. 

Smith, Isaac, Jr. Deering, Glass Cutter, Cambridge. 

Shattuck, John New Ipswich, • 1830,-]\Iason, Marblehead. 

Shepherd, N. A. Nasliua, 1843. -Dry Goods, Boston. 

Stone, Amos "Weare, 1824,- City Treasurer of- • • Charlestown. 

Tubbs, Mical Deering, 1844, -Inn Keeper, Boston. 

Tirrell. Jolin Gotistown,- • • •1817,- Wharfinger, " 

Tewksbury, Wm. P. • • Weare, 1838, • Bookseller, " 

Train, Samuel Hillsboro', 1802. -Merchant, Medford. 

Tirrell. Jesse, Jr. Gotlstown, 1 833, - Wood and Coal, Boston. 

TirrcU, Henry J. Gotistown, 1 849, - Laborer, " 

Wilkins, John H. Amherst, 1821, -Paper Dealer, " 

Whitcomb, C. A. Hancock, 1840, • Law Student, Cambridge. 

Wallace, Robert Goftstown, 1832, -Dry Goods, Boston. 

Whittemore, Benj. F. - - Greenfield, 1 822, - Broker, " 

Whittemore, C. P. - • - Greenfield, 1835, - Grocer, " 

Wallace Wm. M. Milford, 1 843, - Clerk, 

Wason, Elbridgc New Boston, •• 1 832, • Merchant, " 

Wyman, Edward, Jr. - -Pelham, 1837, -Dry Goods, Salem. 

Worcester, Joseph E. - Bedford, Cambridge. 

Whiton, James M. • - -Antrim, 1825,-Dry Goods, Boston. 

Wason, Robert Hudson, 1833, -Provision Dealer, Charlestown. 

Wilkins, Levi New Ipswich, -1825, -Piano Forte Maker,- -Boston. 

Wood, Artemas Mason, Station Master, Groton. 

White, Jonathan Peterboro', - •• - 1 832, - Card Manufacturer, - Lowell. 

Wyman, William Pelham, 1824, - Wood and Coal, Cambridge. 

Walker, Cornelius - - -Bedford, 1823, -Instructor, Boston. 

Winn, David Nashua, 1828,-Cooper, " 

Whittemore, John M.. Greenfield, 1835, -Bookseller, " 

Wilson, Thomas P.- • -Hillsboro', 1848, -Provisions, Charlestown. 

Wallace, John A. Milford, 1847, -Broker, Boston. 

Youngraan, David Peterboro',- - - -1846, Physician and Surg., • South Woburn. 



CHESHIRE COUNTY. 

Albee, Godfrey B Chestei-field, . . 1 830, . Grocer, Charlestown. 

Applin, Benjamin .... Swanzy, 1821,. Stair Builder, Boston. 

Adams, Charles G., Jr. Keene, ,. House Sur. Ms. G. H. " 

Ander.son, CD Keene, 1848,. Clerk " 

Applin, Wesson Swanzy, 1828,. Stair Builder, Charlestown. 

Aldrich, William A Westmorel'd,. . 1 845, . Woolen Business, . . . Boston. 



162 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Names. WTiere from. Date. Business. Present Residence, 

Ainsworth, Fred. S.. . . Jaffrey, 1847,. Physician Boston. 

Bradford, William Keene, 1 830, . Master Mariner, " 

Bowker, Charles Fitzwilliam,. . . 181 2,. Provision Dealer, ... " 

Ballou,Ira Richmond, 1821, .Grocer, " 

Bowers, James L Rindge, 1839,."W. I. Goods, " 

Brooks, Alfred Stoddard, 1823,. Produce, W. Cambridge. 

Bingham, Charles .... Alstead, 

Bingham, William Alstead, 1844,. Clerk, Boston. 

Bundy, Francis Walpole, 1 822, . Mason, " 

Bent, Newell Fitzwilliam, ... 1 843, . Trader, " 

Bowers, Charles Rindge, 1811,. Merchant, " 

Barker, Lewis P Winchester,. . .1829,. Pro visions, W. Cambridge. 

Barker, Prescott Westmorel'd,.. 182.5,. Merchant, Boston. 

Barnett, Robert Walpole, 1 825, . Merchant, " 

Briggs, Lucius H Keene, 1847,. Merchant, " 

Breed, Charles S Nelson, 1847,. Prison Officer, Charlestown. 

BufFum, E Richmond, 

Batchelder, Samuel. . . Jaftrey, 1843, . Manufacturer, Cambridge. 

Buss, Samuel L JafFrey, 1838,. W. I. Goods, Boston. 

Briggs, P. S Westmorel'd,..1833,.W. I. Goods Charlestown. 

Bancroft, Timothy W.. Rindge, Auction and Com.. , .Worcester. 

Bellows, Eph'm H Walpole, 1807,. Manufacturer, Medford. 

Cutter, B. F Jaffrey, 1845,. Merchant, Boston. 

Cutter, Leonard R.. . . JalFrey, 1845,. Clerk, " 

Cummings, Daniel . . . Keene, 1 806, . Wooden Ware, Chelsea. 

Converse, C. C Rindge, 1844,. Flour and Grain,. . . .Somerville. 

Crosby, Joseph F Troy, 1 846, . Clerk, Boston. 

Child, J. H Nelson, 1830,. Trader, Roxbury. 

Dinsmoor, Geo. R.. . .Keene, 1821,. Com. Merchant, Boston. 

Doolittle, Erastus H.. .Winchester, .. .1826,. Inn Holder, " 

Dorr, Cornelius Westmorel'd, .. 1845,. Produce, " 

Dorr, Moses Westmorel'd, .. 1843, .Produce, " 

Dickinson, Alex'r . . . .Swanzy, 1833,. Soap Manufacturer,. .Cambridge. 

Ellis, .lohn M Keene, 1847,. Ag't Col. Ed'n Soc. .Nashua. 

Fay, George H Winchester,. . .1845,. Jeweller, Boston. 

Forristall, Ezra Fitzwilliam,. . . 1822,. Truckman, " 

Forristall, S Fitzwilliam, Provisions, Chelsea. 

Frost, Rufus S Marlboro', 1 833, . Com. Merchant, " 

Flint, D. B Troy, 1839,. Com. Merchant, Watertown. 

Fay, Levi Fitzwilliam,. . .1814,. Grocer, Boston. 

Foster, Samuel Stoddard, 1837, . W. I. Goods, " 

Flint, Amos Walpole, 1848,. Wine Dealer, " 

Gove, John G Roxbury, 1832, . Merchant, " 

Gibson, Kimball Alstead. 1 824, . Painter, " 

Glin, Bradford E Westmorel'd, . . 1842, . Merchant, Charlestown. 

Geratild, S. A Keene, 1845,. Jeweller, Boston. 

Greenwood, W. A Dublin, 1 833, . Fruit Dealer, " 



CUESHIRE COUNTY. 163 

Names. VITierc from. Bate. Business. Present Kesidence. 

Holman, L. F Keeue, 1847, . Clerk Boston. 

Holman, G. C Marlboro', 1844,. Merchant, " 

Hosmer, Hiram AValpole, 1824, . Physician, Watertown. 

HeiTick, Martin R Marlboro', 1822,. Mason, Boston. 

Haskell, Calvin Fitzwilliam,. . . 1808,. Furniture, " 

Hixon, Timothy W. . . Walpole, 1 830, . Stable Keeper, " 

Hildreth, Samuel Chestertield, . .1815,. Tallow Chandler, Lynn. 

Henderson, H. C Keenc, 1845,. Dry Goods, Boston. 

Heustis, James F Westmorel'd, . . 1 845, . Cutter, " 

Humphrey, Thomas . . Surry, 1 842, . Laborer, " 

Holman, John Keene, 1 840, . Laborer, " 

Houghton, G. W Keene, 1840,. Watchman, Dedliam. 

Jewell, Harvey Winchester,. . . 1844,. Lawyer, Boston. 

Jewell, Hosea Winchester,. . . 1833,. Express Man, Camb'gPort. 

Johnson, Joshua J. . . . Surry, Physician, Northboro'. 

Jewell, L}nnan B Winchester,. . . 1845, .Merchant, Boston. 

Jewell, Marshall Winchester, ... 1 844, . Merchant, " 

Joslin, Gilman Stoddard, 1826,. Globe Maker, " 

Jones, Wainwright . . . Rindge, 1 847, . Daguerrian Artist, ... " 

Kingman, Alvan Winchester, .. . 1844,. Piano Forte Maker, ..Brookline. 

Kingman, Pliny E Winchester,. . . 1836,. Com. Merchant, " 

Kingman, Marshall. . .Winchester,. . .1845,. Merchant & Manuf'r, . Watertown, 

Knight, Manasseh. . . .Fitzwilliam,. . .1810,. Dry Goods, Boston. 

Kittredge, F. S Nelson, 1846,. Provision Dealer, " 

Locke, Franklin B Swanzy, 1839,. Gents. Furn'g Goods, . " 

Lincoln, C. Sprague, . .Walpole, 1846,. Student Harv. Col.. . .Cambridge. 

Lovejoy, Reuben Nelson, 1827, Boston. 

Munroe, A. B Keene, 181 9,. Provision Dealer, .... " 

Mead, Samuel O Alstead, 1815,. Broker, Watertown. 

Monroe, Abijah Surry, 1 820, . Machinist, Charlestown, 

Mason, S. K Dublin, 1 840, . Trader, Boston. 

Maynard, Jesse Sullivan, 1 827, . Baker, " 

Maynard, Lambert . . . Sullivan, 1822,. Inn Holder, " 

Maison, D. H Sullivan, 1841,. Counsellor at Law, . .Newton. 

Mason, Hale Fitzwilliam, ...1825,. Carpenter, Charlestown, 

Marsh, Charles Chesterfield,.. .1846,. Dry Goods, Boston. 

Maynard, Geo. A Gilson, 1843, .Baker, " 

Maynard, Lambert M.. Keene, 1847,. Baker, " 

Marshall, Drury M. . . . Dublin, Carpenter. " 

Nims, H. C Sullivan, 1 843, . Stable Keeper, " 

Parker, H. P Dublin, 1832,. Merchant, " 

Parker, Edmund Jaffrey, Counsellor at Law,. .Nasliua. 

Parker, Isaac Jaffrey, 181 7,. Merchant, Boston. 

Parker, Joel Jaffrey, 1848,. Professor of Law,. . . Cambridge, 

Perry, William Fitzwilliam,. . . 1833,. Wood andCoal Dearr,Boston. 

Page, Gilman Rindge, 1820,. Mason, " 

Piper, James G Dublin, 1847,. Merchant, " 

Pratt, Daniel E Walpole, 1831,. Stable Keeper, " 



164 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Names. Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Parker, J. W Keene, 1 848. . Dane Law School, . . . Cambridge. 

Pierce, Stephen H. . . .Rindgc, 1815,. Carpenter, Boston. 

Parker, James ]\I Hinsdale, 1841, . Agricul'l Warehouse,. " 

Parker, H. G Keene, 1848, . Lawyer, " 

Parker, Charles E Keene, 1842,. Architect, " 

Pierce, Jonathan Rindge, 1 826, . Gentleman, " 

Page, Joseph W Rindge, 1823, . Mason, " 

Pierce, Benjamin Jaffrey, 1844,. W. I. Goods, " 

Rand, Charles F Keene, 1844, . Piano Forte, " 

Ranstead, Charles. . . . Westmorel'd, .. 1829,. Iron Forger, " 

Reed, G.F. T Surry, 1828,. Jeweller, " 

Read, Josiah M Swanzy, 1 839, . Port. Cook'g Range, . " 

Rugg, Erastus Rindge, 1831, . Deputy Sheritf, Chelsea. 

Robertson, L Chesterfield, 

Ripley, S. W Winchester, . . . 1842, . Merchant, Boston. ' 

Rust, George Alstead, 1844,. Produce, " 

Russell, W. E Keene, 1844,. Hotel Keeper, " 

Richardson, M. W. . . . Fitz william, ... 1 848, . Dry Goods, " 

Stearns, Elijah Walpole, 1818,. W. L Goods, " 

Sheldon, Francis Nelson, 1836, . L-on and Nail Dealer, " 

Stearns, Simon Walpole, 1803,. Pot and Pearlash,. . . Watertown. 

Simmons, Thomas . . . Keene, Merchant, Roxbury. 

Stone, G. W Fitzwilliam,. . . 1 849,. Daguerrian Artist,. . .Boston. 

Stone, Sardine, Jr Rindge, 1833, Charlestown. 

Sherwin, Thomas. . . .Westmorel'd, .. 1827,. English High School,Dedham. 

Sawtell, Amos Jaffrey, 1828, . Baker, Boston. 

Stone, Joseph Swanzy, 1 835, . Hats and Furs, " 

Slade, Lucius Alstead, 1844,. Hotel, " 

Slade, Ira Alstead, 1 845, . Stove Maker, " 

Stone, Phineas Westmorel'd, .. 1848,. Farmer, Woburn. 

Snow, Jude Chesterfield, . . 1 840, . Merchant, Boston. 

Shurtleff", A. M Rindge, 1849,. Clerk, 

Stearns, Ziba Swanzy, 1845, . Grocer, " 

Stone, Sylvester Rindge, 1839,. Job Wagon, " 

Thomas, Gilman Hinsdale, 1 842, . Express Man, " 

Todd, Jehiel Hinsdale, 1839, . Clerk, Somerville. 

Tarbell. C Rindge, 1845,. Carpenter, Boston. 

Tufts, George A Alstead, 1845,. Clerk, " 

Undei-wood, Joel P Rindge, 18.39,. Engineer, " 

Wilson, Geo. W Walpole, 1835, . Teamster, " 

White, Danforth Gilson, 1819,. Machinist, Newton. 

Wetherbee, C. H Swanzy, 1841,. Truckman, Boston. 

Wilder, Marshall P.. .Rindge, 1825,. Com. Merchant, Dorchester. 

Wells, Charles A Keene, 1811,. Pres. L.P. M. F. I. Co. . Boston. 

Wood, C. P Rindge, 1847,. Clerk, Roxbury. 

Wadsw^orth, Jesse. . . .Roxbury, 1842,. Eating House, Boston. 

Wood, C Rindgc, 1838. . Merchant, " 

Webster, S. H Suny, 1849,. Inn Keeper, " 



SULLIVAN COUNTY. 165 

Names. \Miere from. Date. Business. Present Ilesidcnce. 

Warren, R. S Alsteail, Physifian Waltham. 

Wakeficlil, E. H Marlboro', 18;53,. jMerchaut, Chelsea. 

"Wood, Alfred Rindge, Grocer, Cambridge. 

Wood, Jonas Rindgc, Shoe Dealer, '• 

White, John W Chesterfield, . .184."),. Merchant, Boston. 

Walton, Nathan S Rindgc, 1 8.36, . Taiuter, Cambridge. 

Wilder, Charles J Iveene 1838,. Provisions, Boston. 

Woodward, Isaac Roxbury, 1831,. Piano Forte Maker,. . " 



SULLIViVN COUNTY. 

Albee, Sumner Langdon, 1849,. Teach. Ingram. sch'l, .Boston. 

Aiken, James B Newport 1841,. Grocer, " 

Alden, Joseph Warren . Claremont, .... 1 824, . Merchant, " 

Amsden, Thomas Charlestown, . . 1848, . Faneuil Hall Market, . " 

Bowman, Sylvester . . .Springfield,. . . .1835,. Merchant, " 

Butterfield, Simeon. . .Cornish, 1822,. Merchant, " 

Bowman, 0. P Springfield, .... 1 835, . Grocer, " 

Bingham, Osmcr A. . . Claremont, .... 1845, . Merchant, " 

Clement, Cmis Claremont, 1840, . Clothing, " 

Clement, P. S Claremont, 1841, .Trader, " 

Clapp, Derastus, Claremont, ....1810,. Police Officer, " 

Crosby, Sylvester S.. . Charlestown, . . 1846,. Clerk, " 

Crosby, Sam'l T Charlestown, . . 1838, . Merchant, " 

Crosby, James Charlestown, . .1845,. Druggist, " 

Crosby, Wm Charlestown, . .1832,. Bookseller, Roxbury. 

Clapp, Stephen R Claremont, 1827,. Piano Forte Maker,. .Boston. 

Chace, Caleb Cornish, Merchant, " 

Chase, D. F Claremont, 1849,. Clothing, " 

Davis, Wm Washington, . . 1830, . Provisions, Cambridge. 

Danforth, Isaac Washington, . .1809,. West India Goods,. . .Boston. 

Davis, E. W Washington, Provisions, Cambridge. 

Davis, Reuben P Washington, . .1831, .Iron Founder, Waltliam. 

Durant, Henry Charlestown, . .1835,. Hides and Leather, . .Boston. 

Farwell, John H Claremont, 1838, . Printer, " 

Foss, Jacob Cornish, 1821, .Livingon past earn'gs, Charlestown. 

Flanders, Wm. M Plainfield, 1844,. Dry Goods, Boston. 

Farwell, Joseph Washington, . .1820,. Piano Forte, " 

Gleason, G. H Acworth, 1 826, . Carpenter, " 

Go ward, AVatson Croydon, 1 840, . Furniture, W. Cambridge. 

Glidden, J. F Unity, 1837,. Rail Road Conductor,Boston. 

Gilmore, Quincy A Goshen, 1 844, . Teach, in Eliot school, " 

Gilchrist, D. S Charlesto^vn, . .1838,. Counsellor, " 

Hubbard, N. D Charlestown, . . 1 843, . Lawyer, " 



166 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Names. Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence 

Hall, Adia Cornish, 1815, .Real Estate Broker,. .Boston. 

Hitchcock, Jesse, Jr. . . Clareraont, .... 1 841 , . Clerk, " 

Hubbard, Aaron D.. . . Charlestown, . . 1844,. Broker, " 

Hitchcock, J. R Claremoiit, . . . .1846,. Hotel Keeper, " 

Healy, John P Washington,. . .1835,. Lawyer, " 

Hall, Sam'lW Cornish, 1821,. Merchant, " 

Johnson, Jesse C Unity, 1841,. Salesman, " 

Keyes, Amos Acworth, 1 844, . Produce, " 

Lincoln, Harvey Acworth, 1 824, . Merchant, " 

Moore, Estabrook Acworth, 1 838, . Victualler, " 

McAllister, H. M Newport, 1846,. Merchant, " 

McCrillis, Ozem Goshen, 1 842, . Wood Wharfinger, ... " 

Morrison, Sam'l J Langdon, 1836,. Produce, " 

Matthews, Geo. R Claremont, .... 1 844, . Teamster, Roxbury. 

Murdough, Horace. . . .Acworth, 1849,. Clerk, Boston. 

Morse, Lewis B Washington, . . 1 844, . Clerk " 

Orne, Otis Lempster, Grocer, " 

Powers, Dennis Croydon 1825, . Clergyman, So. Abington. 

Pierce, J. W Charlestown, Machinist, Lowell. 

Poland, Horace Langdon, 1 830, . Carpenter, Boston. 

Richards, Abiathan. . .Newport, 1820,. Butcher, Dedham. 

Saxton, F. S Claremont, . . . .1832,. Bookseller, Boston. 

Sanborn, C. P Springfield, 1 822, . Carpenter, " 

Starbird, Nath'I W 1825,. Tailor, Maiden. 

Sumner, Fred. A Charlestown, . .1827,. Physician, Boston. 

Sabine, J Claremont, . . . .1841, .Dentist, " 

Stow, Baron Croydon, 1 832, . Clergj^man, " 

Stevens, N. C Plainfield, 1 846, . Physician, " 

Stevens, Paran Claremont, Revere House, " 

Silsby, J. H Acworth, 1 843, . United States Hotel,. . " 

Stevens, Chas. G Claremont, 1845,. Lawyer, Clintonville. 

Sperry, Joseph L Claremont, . . . .1834,. Carpenter, Boston. 

Tasker, Ebenezer Cornish, Grocer, " 

Upham, J. B Claremont, 1846,. Physician, " 

Vose, Sam'l D Washington,. . .1819,. Teamster, " 

Vose, Nathan D Washington, ... 1 823, . Builder, " 

White, A. L Newport, 1836,. Leather, " 

Wheeler, M. S Newport, 1842,. Merchant, " 

Webber, Sam'l Charlestown, Manufacturer, Lawrence. 

Wheeler, Gardner Lempster, 1 845, . Trader, Boston. 

Whitmore, H. S Charlestown, . . 1840,. Clerk, Charlestown. 

White, Nathan Newport, Wool Buyer, Newport. 

Watson, E Newport, 1 849, . Inn Keeper, Boston. 

Warner, B. F Acworth, 1 840, . Merchant, Chelsea. 



MERRIMAC COUNTY. 167 



MERRIMAC COUNTY. 

Names. Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Allen, Joseph Epsom, 1831 , . Grocer, Boston. 

Abbott, John C Concord, 1848, . Merchant, " 

Bowman, Dexter Henniker, 1818,. West India Goods, . . . Charlestown. 

Babb, James Epsom, 1830,. Merchant, Lynn. 

Batchclder, Hiram. . . .Loudon, 1838,. Eating House, Boston. 

Barnes, Parker Bradford, Horticulturist, Dorchester. 

Bartlett, Levi Salisbury, W. I. Goods, Boston. 

Butters, William A.. . .Pittsfield, 1829,. Bookseller, " 

Benson, John Pembroke, 1825,. Merchant, Cambridge. 

Bunten, Robert AUenstown, . . . 1826,. Machinist, Boston. 

Bunten, Jesse iVllenstown, . . .1828,. Stone Cutter, Milton. 

Bickford, W. D Epsom, 1 834, . W. L Goods, Boston. 

Bryant, David Bradford, 1823,. Architect, " 

Bailey, Edwin C Hopkinton, 1832,. Clerk, " 

Baker, James Bow, 1834,. Leather Dealer, " 

Bishop, C. J Concord, 1 836, . Com. Merchant " 

Batchelder, G. C Chichester, .... 1827, " 

Brockway, M. J Bradford, 1849, . Clerk, " 

Barnes, Luther Bradford, 1825,. Composition Roofs,. . " 

Bradley, John Concord, 1 847, . Treas. for Chr. Obs'y, . " 

Badger, Geo. W Warner, 1829, . Merchant, " 

Bement, Wni. B Bradford, Machinist, Lowell. 

Barnes, Loring B Bradford, 1831, .Clerk, Boston. 

Brown, Stephen D. . . .Epsom, 1822,. Blacksmith, Lynn. ' 

Brown, J Bradford. 1848,. Counsellor, Boston. 

Brown, Jonathan Epsom, Carpenter, " 

Brown, Orlando Franklin, Teamster, " 

Clement, Kufus New London,. .1835,. Retired Merchant,. . .Billerica. 

Chase, Cyrus Hopkinton, 1 842, . Inspector of Customs,Boston. 

Clement, J. S New London, . . 1 834, . Merchant " 

Colby, Patrick Eranklin, 1834,. Farmer, Brighton. 

Curtis, T. W. T Epsom, 1843,. Schoolmaster, Lawrence. 

Currier, Hubbard C. . .Bow, 1820,. Manufacturer, Boston. 

Colby, Johnson Dunbarton, . ...1811,. Mess. to City Council, " 

CheeVer , Ii-a Hopkinton, .... 1 846, . Teacher, Chelsea. 

Cofron, Thomas M.. . .Pembroke, . . . .1841,. Teamster, Cambridge. 

Cheney, Alvan Pembroke, .... 1832, . Turner, South Woburn. 

Chrichet, Thomas Epsom, 1834,. Inspector of Customs, Boston. 

Clough, Alexander . . . Bow, 1 841 , . Fish and Oysters, ... 

Clark, J. B Hopkinton, 1844,. Piano Forte Maker,. . 

Colby, G. A Bradford, Machinist, Lowell. 

Chase, Charles G Northfield, .... 1846, . Clerk, Boston. 

Chamberlain, Mellen. .Pembroke, . . . .1848,. Attorney at Law,. . . .Chelsea. 

Chamberlin, D Loudon, Tea Merchant, Boston. 

Carleton, Samuel Hopkinton,. . . .1838,. Furniture Dealer,. . . .Maiden. 

.)0 



168 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Names. Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Clark, Samuel G Pittstield, Student, Cambridge. 

Clough, Daniel, Jr. . . .Bow, 1846 .Fish and Oysters, Boston. 

Gushing, H. D Salisbury, 1842, . Lumber Dealer, " 

Caldwell, Henry L Hopkinton, 1 845, . Fore'n, B. & W. R. R. " 

Dudley, B. F Pembroke, 1 824,. Farmer, Milton. 

Davis, Isaac Bradford, 1829,. Soap Manufacturer, . . Cambridge. 

Dudley, J. H Pembroke, . . . .1825,. West India Goods,. . .Boston. 

Drake, Samuel G Pittsfield, 181 6,. Publisher, " 

Davis, Eliphalet Bradford, 1813,. Fancy Soap Manuf'r, Cambridge. 

Dimond, Oral Concord, 1 8-30, . Turner, Boston. 

Dow, Moody Concord, 1 830, . Hotel Keeper, Lynn. 

Davis, Curtis Bradford, 1 832, . Soap and Candle Mk'r,Cambd'g Port. 

Davis, Jacob Warner, 1 829, . Baker, Medford. 

Darling, George A. P.. Bradford, 18.33,. Hard Ware, Boston. 

Davis, Mason Bradford, 1835,. Soap Maker, Cambridge. 

Dearborn, Joseph B.. .Loudon, 1826,. Carpenter, Boston. 

Dix, T. Bro^\Ti Boscawen, Custom House, " 

Dimond, George Concord, 1 845, . Turner, " 

Dudley, Trueworthy,Jr.Pembroke, .... 1816,. Grocer, " 

Evans, Charles S Warner, 1818,. Cl'k Market Bank,. . . " 

Emmons, John L Concord, 1821,. Merchandise, " 

Eastman, C. J. F Salisbury, 1831,. Grocer, Waltham. 

Emery, J. O Loudon, Restorator, Boston. 

Emmons, Charles P. . . . Concord, 

Evans, A. A Concord, Mercliant, " 

Eastman, Frank Concord, 1846,. Printer, " 

Evans, Gilbert Franklin, 1830, . Chiropodist, " 

Eaton, Perley Bradford, 1848,. Brakeman, W. R. R. . . " 

Evans, Alfred Allenstown, . . . 1819, .Merchant, " 

Everett, D. R New London, . . 1 845, . Butter and Cheese, ... " 

French, Stewart Warner, 1840,. Carpenter, " 

Farnham, Luther Concord, 1 844, . Clergyman, " 

Farrington, Sam'l P. . . Hopkinton, 1 835, . Merchant, " 

French, Benjamin .... Pembroke, .... 1 820, . Carpenter, " 

Flanders, Wm. B Dunbarton, 1 835, . Market, Chelsea. 

Greenleaf, Francis S. . . Salisbury, 1 846, . Dry Goods, Boston. 

Greene, Charles G Boscawen, 1822,. Printer, " 

Gage, George W New London,. .1841,. Hotel Keeper, " 

Greely, Joseph Salisbury, 1833,. Merchant, " 

Greene, Hugh W Concord, 1 829, . Purser, U. S. Navy, . . . Cambridge. 

George, Nathaniel M. . Franklin, 1 833, . Merchant, Boston. 

Hutchins, Abel Concord, 1 844, . Dry Goods, " 

Hall, Adino B Northfield, 1846,. Physician, Natick. 

Hcrrick, J. Everett New London, . . 1 849, . Medical Student, Boston. 

Huntoon, Benjamin. . . Salisbury, 1819,. Clergyman, Marblehcad. 

Herrick, Henry Hopkinton, 1830, .Bookbinder, Stoneham. 

Hutchins, Charles . . . .Concord, 

Howe, Manly Henniker, 1844,. Druggist, Boston. 



MERRIMAC COUNTY. 1G9 

Names. Where from. Date. BuMness. Present Residence. 

Hutchins, J. R Concord, 1843, . Grocer, Boston. 

Hadley, Carlton Dunbartou, 1 822, . Laborer, " 

Hawes, Alvin Hooksett, 1842,. Carpenter, " 

Jameson, John Dunbarton, . . . 1834,. Teacher, Sau<nis. 

Jones, Lewis Canterbury, . . .1824,. Collector, Boston. 

Kent, George Concord, 1 845, . Attorney, " 

Kittredge, .tUfred Canterbury, . . . 1829,. Attorney, Haverhill. 

Knox, Oscar Pembroke, 1 848, . Clerk, Boston. 

Kent, John Concord, 1846,. Clerk, " 

Long, William H Hopkinton, 1847,. Teacher, Roxbury. 

Long, David C Hopkinton, 1 824, . Bookbinder, Boston. 

Low, F Concord, 1849,. Merchant, " 

Lougee, J. K Concord, 1844,. Clerk, " 

Langmaid, Samuel P.. Chichester, . . . .1826,. Trader, " 

Lovering, Luke W Salisbury, 1 832, . Trader, " 

Morrill, Charles A. . . . Canterbury, ... 1 837, . Teacher, " 

Mathews, Cjtus E. . . . Canterbury, . . . 1845, . Grocer, " 

Moulton, Newell H Pittsficld, 1818,. Grocer, " 

Mathews, H. S Canterbury, ... 1 849, . W. L Goods, " 

Mathews, James M Northtield, 1833,. Polisher, " 

Neal, Samuel Loudon, 1832,. Carpenter, " 

Noyes, Samuel Pembroke, House Builder, Dedham. 

Parker, Benjamin Pembroke, 1809,. Brick Maker, Charlestown. 

Pope, William Henniker, Waltham. 

Paige, James W Pittsfield, 181 6,. Merchant, Boston. 

Parker, Joseph Pembroke, 1831,. Farmer, South Boston. 

Price, C. Sewall Boscawen, . . . .1838,. Custom House, Boston. 

Philbrick, Samuel R.. . Andover, 1845,. Druggist, " 

Perkins, Alfred Dunbarton, 1827,. W^ood Wharf, " 

Perkins, Abra'm B. • • • Dunbarton,. Sawing, " 

Parkinson, William . . . Dunbarton, .... 1 840, . Teamster, " 

Parker, George A Concord, 1831, .Civil Engineer, " 

Paige, Geo. H Salisbury, 

Page, Green Pittsfield, 1830,. Provision Dealer,. . . .Lynn. 

Pattee, Enoch D Dunbarton, 1835,. Trader, W. Cambridge. 

Pattee, James Dunbarton, . . . .1849, . Merchant, 

Rogers, Octavius S.. . .Pembroke, .... 1821,. Stone Cutter, Milton. 

Rand, A. AV Northfield, 1 840, . Grocer, Roxbury. 

Ring, Charles H Pittsfield, 1 848, . Public House, Boston. 

Rowell, John J Andover, 1 839, . Engineer, " 

Sanborn, Amos C Northfield, 1 824, . Stone Cutter, " 

Stevens, Amos Concord, 181 9,. Balance Maker, Roxbury. 

Sanders, O. S Epsom, 1848,. Physician, Boston. 

Steele, M. M Epsom, 1849,. Dry Goods, " 

Shute, William M Concord, Hat and Fur Dealer,.. " 

Studley, Edward A. . .Bradford, 1838, . Tailor, " 

Stevens, Charles E Pembroke, Editor, Barre. 

Seaman, Benjamin W.. New London,. .1837,. Trader, Boston. 



170 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Names. Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Stevens, John A Henniker, 182 1,. Physician, Boston. 

Thompson, W.S Andover, 1849,. Clerk, " 

Towle, Lyman Newbury, 1831, . Merchant, " 

Tenney, J. J. M Loudon, 1 840, . Merchant, " 

Thorndike, James P.. .Warner, 1835,. Hide and Leath. Dl'r, " 

Thompson, J.W Pembroke, Forwarding Merchant,8pringfield. 

Tubbs, Alfred L Concord, 1845, -Book Keeper, Boston. 

True, Abraham Chichester, Salem. 

Tenney, Nathaniel F. .Dunbarton, 1837,. Merchant, Boston. 

Towle, George S Concord, 1844, . Book Keeper, Charlestown. 

Towle, Henry Epsom, 1843,. Provision Dealer, . . . .Boston. 

Webster, Charles H. . . Warner, 1 847, . Stove Dealer, " 

Wallace, J. G Henniker, 1843,. Dry Goods, " 

Whipple, John L Dunbarton, 1832,. Merchant, Dorchester. 

Wilkins, Charles Concord, 1815,. Merchant, Boston. 

Williams, Henry E New London, . .1835,.Provisions, " 

Wliitcher, J. B North li eld, Stone Cutter, Milton. 

Webster, Francis B.. . .Salisbury, 1846,. Merchant, Boston. 

West, Edward Chichester, .... 1 842, . Soap Worker, " 

Webster, Worcester. . . Salisbury, Merchant, Boscawen. 



STRAFFORD COUNTY. 

Angier, Joseph Durham, Clergyman, Milton. 

Beck, William Lee, 1817,. Col. Cl'k Atlas Bank,. Boston. 

Bussell, W. C Barrington, .... 1 846, . Grocer, Charlestown. 

Butler, Henry T Somcrsworth, .. 1832,. Stove Dealer, 

Clark, Hosea Dover, 1 829, . Wool Dealer, Cambridge. 

Coe, J. L Durham, 1845, .Clerk, Boston. 

Caverly, Moses W. . . .Strafford, 1848,. Lumber Dealer, Brighton. 

Clary, Joseph W Dover, 1836,. Merchant, Boston. 

Chesley, Plumer !Madbury, Bricklayer, Lynn. 

Chamberlin, Seth New Durham, Merchant, Boston. 

Colcord, S. M Somcrsworth, . . 1 840, . Druggist, " 

Chamberlin, Abram. . .New Durham, . 1836,. Real Estate Agent,. . . Charlestown. 

Coe, John E Durham, 1 846, . Book Keeper, Boston. 

Dowe, Geo. M Durham, 1839,. Dry Goods, " 

Dowe, Joseph Durham, 1824,. Publisher, " 

Doe, E. R Somcrsworth,.. 1844,. Trader, " 

Downs, Simon E Milton, 1830, . Truckman, " 

Drew, Elijah Dover, 1837,. Trader, " 

Dow, Nathan T Dover, 1839,. Lawyer, " 

Emerson, John W Durham, 1849.. Attorney at Law,. ... " 

Gilman, Orlando New Durham, . 1840,. Inn Holder, Charlestown. 



MERRIMAC COUNTY. X71 

Names. Where from. Date. Business, Present Residence 

Hanson, John B Durham, 1840,. Merchant, Boston. 

Hanson, J. L Durham, 1842,. luu Keeper, " 

Ham, B. Franklin Dover, 1 839, . Hard Ware, « 

Hanson, Elijah A Dover, Tanner, Salem. 

Hart, Nathaniel Milton, 1837,. Carpenter, Chelsea. 

Ham, Richard S Dover, 1806,. Shoe Manufacturer,. .Lynn. 

Hanson, Geo. F Milton Mills, . .1846,. AVine Dealer, Boston. 

Hanson, Anthony Dover, 1833,.Cai-penter, 

Hall, AVm. D Dover, Fr't Mas. B. & P.R.R.. Canton. 

Hanson, Joseph Dover, Gentleman, Cambridge. 

Jenks, Thomas S Dover, 1842. .Apothecary, Boston. 

Laighton, Thomas .... Somersworth, . . 1 838, . Engineer, " 

Ladd, John S Lee, 1835, . Counsellor, Cambridge. 

Meserve, Isaac H Barrington, .. . . 1842,. Sup't Almshouse,. . . .Roxbury. 

Mellen, G. W. F Dover, 1834,. Chemist, Boston. 

Mathes, Charles L Durham, 1837,. Grain Dealer, Roxbury. 

March, Jonas C Rochester, . . . . 1837,. Merchant, Boston. 

Moulton, Benj. P Dover, 1843,. Courier Office, " 

Nutter, Richard Rochester, 1835,. Com. Merchant, " 

Noble, John H Somersworth, . .1828, . Furniture Dealer, .... Somerville. 

Nute, Ephraim Dover, 1817,. Distiller, Boston. 

Nute, Enoch Dover, 1821,. Grocer, Roxbury. 

Nute, Paul Dover, Carpenter, " 

Peirce, T. W Dover, 1 843, . Grocer, Boston. 

Pinkham, R. H Durham, 1824,. Teamster, " 

Perry, John Barrington, . . . 1832,. Stock Broker, Dorchester. 

Pinkham, T. J Durham, 1826,. Trader, Lynn. 

Palmer, J. B Dover, 1843, .Dry Goods, Boston. 

Roberts, John G Somersworth,. .1810,. Bookbinder, " 

Richardson, Joseph. . .Durham, 1824,. Merchant, " 

Rollins, Charles Somersworth,. . 1833,. Builder, " 

Robinson, John Paul. .Dover, 1819,. Lawyer, Dracut. 

Shannon, Oliver N. . . .Barrington, . . .1829,. Mason, Newton. 

Starbird, Asa D Stral!brd, 1 824, . Merchant Tailor, Charlestown, 

Smith, Thomas L Dover, 1 840, . Grocer, Dover. 

Torr, Geo. H Rochester, 1849,. Book Keeper, Boston. 

Tuttle, E. S Lee, 1832,. Accountant, " 

Twombly, Alex. H.. . .Madbury, 181 7,. Merchant, " 

Thompson, Chas. W.. .Dover, 1847, .Clerk, " 

Tolman, S. P Dover, 1836, . Stucco Worker, " 

Varney, S. H Dover, Carpenter, Roxbury. 

Varney, S Rochester, .... 1812, .No business, Charlestown. 

Waldron, Horatio G. . . Barrington, .... 1 834, . House & Sign Painter, " 

Winkley, S Straflford, 1 823, . Tailor Maiden. 

Wentworth, A Dover, Marble Worker, Boston. 

Wentworth, Arioch . . . Somersworth, . . 1 836, . Soap St'n and Marble, " 

Wentworth, S. A. ... Milton, 1841,. Provision Dealer, " 

Wilson, Henry Farmington, Editor, Natick. 



172 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Names. Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

White, C. G Dover, 1840,. Shoe Dealer, Boston. 

York, J Durham, 1843,. Dealer in Provisions,. " 

York, Joseph N Lee, 1842,. Physician, " 



BELIvNAP COUNTY. 

Adams, Paul Alton, 1820, Boston. 

Boynton, Joseph Meredith, 1837,. Butcher, Brighton. 

Brown, Amos Sandbornton, . .1833, . Carpenter, Charlestown. 

Bryant, S. B Meredith, 1844, . Cabinet Maker, Boston. 

Bowman, Zadoc Center Harbor,. 1 825,. W. I. Goods, Charlestown. 

Bean, J. D Gilmanton, . . . .1832,. Eating House, Boston. 

Banchor, John Barnstead, 1820,. Wine Dealer, " 

Chapman, J. N Meredith, 1845,. Clerk, " 

Clough, John Sandbornton, . .1844,. Surgeon Dentist, . . . . Woburn. 

Chandler, S. B New Hampton,. 1845,. Furniture Dealer,. . . .Boston. 

Crockett, Selden Meredith, 1821,.Bromfield House, " 

Coverly, Jas. W Sandbornton, . . 1836,. Cash. White's Bon. R. " 

Clark, Joseph H Gilmanton, . . . .1840,. Provision Dealer, " 

Clark, John T Sandbornton, . . 1844,. Clerk, " 

Cotton, Chas Gilmanton, 1836,. Clerk, " 

Dow, Daniel Gilmanton, . . . .1835,. Carpenter, " 

Durrell, Oren A Gilmanton, Stone Mason, Lynn. 

Doe, Joseph M Sandbornton, . . 1 82G, . Furniture Dealer, Boston. 

Danforth, John C Meredith, 18-30,. Attorney at Law, " 

Drake, Nathan New Hampton,. 1836,. Mason, " 

Everett, L. C Meredith, 1832, . Dry Goods, Cliarlestown. 

Edgerly, John S Meredith, 1 824, . Grain Dealer, Somerville. 

Eaton, J. F Meredith, 1832, . Milkman, Quincy. 

Fogg, David S Meredith, Physician, Dedham. 

Fifield. J. B. M New Hampton,. 1841,. Furniture Dealer, Charlestown. 

Fogg, Stephen N Meredith, Builder, Roxbury. 

Fox, David B Center Harbor, . 1 840, . Clerk, Charlestown. 

Fox, Edward S Meredith, . . . .1846,. Clerk, " 

Foss, Chas. M Meredith, 1836,. Trader, Boston. 

Gale, Nathaniel Gilmanton, .... 1 823, . Clerk, Custom House, Chelsea. 

Greeley, AG Gilmanton, .... 1 843, . Produce, Boston. 

Gile, John C Gilmanton 1840,. Trader, 

Gale, Lucian Meredith, 1845,. Attorney at Law, 

Hayes, Ephraim Alton, 181 8,. Hotel Keeper, 

Hackett, Hiram Gilmanton, 1828,.Fre't Ag't, Low'l R. R. 

Hazelton, H. L Sandbornton, . . 1847,. Attorney at Law, 

Huse, George W. S.. . .Meredith, 1844,. Furniture Dealer, 



BELKNAP COUNTY. 173 

Names. WTicre from. Date. Business. Present Residence, 

Haven, Elbridgc G Meredith, 1847,. Cabinet Maker, Cliarlestown. 

llazelton, J. E Saudbornton, . . 181 7,. Furniture Dealer, Boston. 

llurd, Jeremiah Alton, 1843,. Com. Merchant, " 

Hackett, J. C New Hampton, . 1832, . Stair Builder, " 

Jacobs. Lsaac Barns tead, 1848,. Omnibus, Jamaica Plain. 

Kelley, Philip Meredith, 1826,. Stucco Worker Boston. 

Kelley, Thomas Meredith, 1829,. Stucco Worker, " 

Kelley, Joseph H Gilmanton, 1843, . Clerk, " 

Lane, Freeman Sandbornton, . .1831,. Clerk, " 

Ladd, David P Gilford, 1844, . Express Man, " 

Lane, J. C Sandbornton, . .1845,. Clerk, " 

Morrison, C. G Sandbornton, .. 1 846, . Builder and Plumber, . " 

Morrison, David Sandbornton, . .1815,. Farmer, Brighton. 

Morrison, Nath'l P. . . . Sandbornton, Gardener, Somerville. 

Magoun, A. B New Hampton,. 1845,. School Teacher, Cambridge. 

Magoun, John C New Hampton, . 1819, . Farmer, Somerville. 

Mudgett, W. S Gilmanton, 1838,. Clothing, Boston. 

Nash, Stephen Gordon. New Hampton,. 1846,. Lawyer, " 

Norris, Geo. L Meredith, 1833,. Clerk, " 

Parrish, Rufus P Gilmanton, 1 834, .Clerk " 

Prescott, Edwin R Gilmanton 1835,. Dry Goods, . W. Cambridge. 

Perkins, Matthew Sandbornton, . .1841,. Watch Maker, Boston. 

Prescott, John C Sandbornton,. .1825,. Truckman, " 

Perkins, Chas. S Sandbornton, Merchant, Lowell. 

Pickering, G. V Gilford, 1844, -Dentist, Boston. 

Perkins, Wm. J Center Harbor, . 1 838, . Teamster, Koxbury. 

Payne, Thos. W Meredith, 1833,. Wood Turner, Boston. 

Robinson, Henry L Meredith, 1 844, . Waiter, " 

Robinson, Noah New Hampton,. 1841,. Mess, for Gov. & Conn. " 

Robinson, John R New Hampton,. 1829,. Railway Times, " 

Robinson, Timo. S.. . .Meredith, 1841,. Inn Keeper, Bath, Me. 

Robinson, Geo. W New Hampton,. 1826,. Grocer, Lexington. 

Rogers, Hiram P Alton, 1837,. Trader, Somerville. 

Robinson, Geo. I Gilmanton, .... 1849, . Clerk, Boston. 

Robinson, J. P Barnstead, 1817,. Merchant, Roxbury. 

Rundlet, Taylor M Sandbornton, . .1839,. Trader, Boston. 

Robinson, S. W New Hampton,. 1813, .Farmer, Lexington. 

Robinson, Josiah S.. . .Gilmanton, . . . .1839,. West Lidia Goods,. . .Boston. 

Robinson, T. S. G Sandbornton, . . 1 828, . Furniture Dealer, .... Charlestown. 

Robinson, Thos. W.. . .Gilmanton, . . . .1835,. Wine Dealer, Boston. 

Robinson, John H Gilmanton, . . . . 1846, . Clerk, " 

Smith, Jona. L New Hampton,. 1844,. Merchant, " 

Swasey, G. B Meredith, 1831, .Grocer, " 

Stewart, L. H Alton, 1830,. Truckman, " 

Smith, Thos. H New Hampton,. 1835, " 

Sewall, Moses B Gilford, 1833,. Leather Dealer, Charlestown. 

Sanborn, Eastman . . . .Sandbornton, . .1830, .Physician, Andover. 

Sanborn, Nathan Sandbornton, . .1826,. Music Teacher, Boston. 



174 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Names. Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Smith, Nathaniel Gilmauton, 1826,. Stone Cutter, Charlestown. 

Smith, Moody H Meredith, 1829,. Cordwainer, Lynn. 

Tilton, Jeremiah G.. . . Sandbornton, . .1832,. Door Knob Maker,.. . Charlesto^vn. 

Tasker, John T Barnstead, 1845,. Lawyer, Boston. 

Taylor, Daniel Sandbornton, . . 1832,. Merchant, " 

Varney, Geo. C Meredith, 1838. . Trader, " 

Watson, David Meredith, 1833,. Wood Turner, " 

Webster, Sidney Gilmauton, .... 1847,. Student at Law, " 

Wheelock, Abel Sandbornton, . .1829,. Clerk, " 



CARROLL COL^'TY. 

Abbott, James A Conway, 1843,. Lawyer, Boston. 

Abbott, Jerre Conway, 1843, . Com. Merchant, " 

Allen, Isaac Tamwortli, .... 1844,. Farmer, Jamaica Plain. 

Allen, Stephen M Burton, 1836,. Merchant, " 

Ames, Israel Ossipee, 1817,. Gentleman, Boston. 

Brackett, Isaac Ossipee, 1830,. Provision Dealer, " 

Berry, A. M Wakefield, 1 840, . Provisions, " 

Bryent, Walter Tamworth, 1829,. Stove Maker, " ■^ 

Bean, J. Q. A Moultonboro',.. 1847,. Con. B. & W. R. R.. . " 

Bean, A. A Moultonboro', ..1849,. Clerk, " 

Beede, A. B Sandwich, 1837, .Porter, " 

Beede, Moses H Sandwich, 1844.. Teamster, Lynn. 

Brewster, John Wolfboro', . . . .1844,. Merchant, Cambridge. 

Brown, Geo Ossipee, 1846, Boston. 

Colcord, John M Effingham 1 838,. Teach. Phillips Sch'l,. " 

Cate, Horatio N Brookfield, . . .1847,. Insurance Agent,. . . .Reading. 

Clair, Jonathan F Sandwich Farmer, Newton. 

Calder, J. W Brookfield. . . .1835,. Wine Dealer, Boston. 

Chamberlin, Jason .... Wolf boro' Trader, Marblehead. 

Chesley, John H Wakefield, 1834,. Trader, Boston. 

Clark, Sam'l, Jr Eaton, 1 844,. Fo reman St.Sweepers, " 

Cook, Wm. T Wakefield, 1841,. Merchant, 

Chamberlin, Daniel. . .Wo If boro' 1827,. Hotel Keeper, W. Cambridge. 

Clarke, Dan'l D Sandwich, 1829,. Contractor, Lynn. 

Dow, Chas. H Tamworth . . 1841,. Clerk, Braintree. 

Dow, Josiah Wakefield, .... 1849,. Farmer, Boston. 

Done, John C Ossipee, ...... ,... ..Teacher, " 

Downcs, Aaron P Tamworth, . . . . 1843,. Pro vision Dealer,. ... " 

Dow, David Tamworth 1842, . W. I. Goods, " 

Davis, John Eaton, 1818,. W. L Goods, " 

Flanders, Stephen C. . Sandwich, 1843,. Truckman, " 

French, N.G Sandwich,. .. .1849,. Clerk, " 

Felch, George M Sandwich, 1 838. . Coachman, " 



GRAFTON COUNTY. 175 

Names Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Grant, Wm. G Ossipee, 1842,. Manager, Boston. 

Gappy, James H Brookfield, 1836, . Trader, " 

Glims. Xahiim N Moultonboro', . .1826,. Vender Sawyer, Charlestown. 

Hill, Thomas Conway, 1 846, . Clerk, Boston. 

Hoit, Joseph Sandwich, Glass Packer, E. Cambridge. 

Huckins, A Etfiugliam, .... 1848,. Pro vision Dealer,. . . .Boston. 

Hodge, Thos. S Brookfield, . . . .1843,. Painter and Glazier,. .Roxbury. 

Hodsdon, Lorenzo. . . .Freedom, 1843,. Clerk Suffolk Bank, . .Boston. 

Lyford, Thomas Brookfield, . . . .1827,. Carpenter, " 

Little, Albert Sandwich, 1831, .Dry Goods, " 

Leavitt, Thos Etfingham, 1 833, . Grocer, " 

Lovering, "Wm. B Freedom, 1839,. Cartman, " 

Libby, Francis Wakefield, 1841, . Hotel Keeper, " 

Lang, Alfred Brookfield, 1840, . Carpenter, " 

Martin, Enoch Wolfboro,' 1815,. Broker, " 

Mallard, Chas Tuftonboro', . . . 1829,. Provisions, " 

Martin, Jeremiah .... Wolf boro', 1823,. Ship Smith, Melrose. 

Mason, J. L Sandwich, 1839,. Trader, Boston. 

Parker, M. S Wolf boro', 1798,. Notary Public, " 

Price, John Tarn worth, Teacher, Manchester. 

Philbrick, Thos. G. . . . Tam worth, 1830,. Stable Keeper, Chelsea. 

Peavy, Hazen Tuftonboro'. . . .1841,. Pro vision Dealer,. . . .Boston. 

Parker, Sam'l H Wolf boro', 

Skinner, Alvah Wakefield, 1829,. Jeweller, " 

Smith, J. V. C Conway 1818, . Physician, " 

Sibly, Joseph B Wakefield, Hotel Keeper, " 

Skinner, Noah K Wakefield, 1818,. Tailor, " 

Scates, Dodavah Ossipee, 1839,. Com. Merchant, " 

Scates, Clark S Ossipee, 1846, . Teamster, " 

Smith, Josiah A Moultonboro', ..1829,. Grain Dealer, " 

Shannon, Edwin Moultonboro',. .1837,. Market, " 

Twombly, W. J Tarn worth, 1833,. Baker, " 

Twombly, Sam'l W. . .Tamworth, 1837, Lynn. 

Taylor, S. P Efiingham, 1829,. Insurance Broker, Boston. 

Wiggin, Asa A Brookfield, 1824,. Grocer, " 

Wentworth, Horace. . .Wakefield, 1844,. Bookseller, Lowell. 

Wiggin, J. K Wakefield, . . . . 1844,. Clerk, Boston. 

Young, J. B Wakefield, 1836, . Painter and Glazier, . . Roxbury. 



GRAFTON COUNTY. 

Adams, Coiman S Hebron, 1848,.Lawj'er, Boston. 

Brown, B. F Hanover, 1 839, . Druggist, " 

Bell, Joseph M Haverhill, 1 841 , . Lawyer, " 

Browne, J. B Lyme, 1841,. Clerk, Dorchester. 

Buswell, Edwin W Lebanon, 1844,. Book Keeper, Boston. 

Baker, Warren M Holderness, 1841, .Intelligence Office,. . . " 

Burleigh, Henry Dorchester, 1844,. Trader, " 

Cobuni, Dan'l J Piemiont, 1840,. Deputy Sheriff, " 

Cunier, Arthur M Plymouth, 1846, . Victualler, " 

23 



176 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Names. Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Cass, Rufus Bridgewater, .. .1839,. Livery Stable, Charlestowa. 

Cook, Charles Campton, 1826, . Sexton & Undertaker,Boston. 

Crosby, J. L Campton, 1832,. Merchant, Somerville. 

Crosby, Robert H Hanover, 1848,. Law Student, Cambridge. 

Chapman, S. D Hill, Boston. 

Colby, John Thornton, 1821,. Provision Dealer, " 

Cady, Albert W Lyman, 1845, . Cabinet Maker, " 

Chase, A. C Alexandria, . . . 1837, . W. I. Goods, 

Clark, Leonard C Canaan, 1848, . Provision Dealer, " 

Currier, H. M Hill, 1836,. Upholster, 

Currier, Moses J Entield, 1 833, . Merchant, No. Danvers. 

Copp, George W "Warren, 1833,. Variety Store, Cambridge. 

Chandler, Joseph Campton, 1828,. Piano Forte Maker,. .Boston. 

Currier, Henry M Plymouth, 1846,. Restorant, " 

Cushman, M. E Warren, 1 849, . Clerk, Brighton. 

Dodge, Frederick Lyme, 1849,. Merchant, Boston. 

Dimick, F. B Lyme, 1841, .Clerk, " 

Durkee, Silas Hanover, 1841,. Physician " 

Douglass, Erastus . . . .Littleton, 1818,. Cabinet Maker, Lowell. 

Dickinson, J. W Enfield, 1844, . Merchant, Boston. 

Dow, James B Littleton, 1825, . Publisher, " 

Dame, A. A Orford 1814,. Lawyer, " 

Emerson, Robert Piermont, 1820,. Wood and Cool, " 

Emerson, John Piermont, 1 829, . Wood and Coal, " 

Emerson, David D Piermont, 1822,. Lamp Maker, " 

Fletcher, Samuel PljTnouth, Lawyer, Andover. 

French, Benjamin . . . Lebanon, 1840, . Merchant, Boston. 

Foster, Thomas W Hanover, 1801, .Clerk, " 

Fellows, Jacob Piermont, 1825,. Trader, " 

Fellows, J. K Piermont, 1835,. Clerk, " 

Favor, Horace S Hill, 1 832, . Tanner, Cambridge. 

Ferrin, Samuel Alexandria, . . . 1803,. Brick Maker, Charlestown. 

Flanders, John L Danbury, 1826,. Carpenter, Boston. 

Flanders, Benjamin H. Danbury, 1837,. Carpenter, " 

Farror , David Campton, 

George, Leonard Plymouth, 1 843, . Carpenter, Brighton. 

Gilbert, A Lyme, 1826,. Clothing, Lowell. 

Goodrich, Chas. B Lebanon, 1837.. Counsellor at Law, . .Boston. 

Gilbert, Samuel S Hanover, 1824,. Nothing in particular, " 

Gitchell, A. E Haverhill, -Driver, 

George, James W Plymouth, 1844,. Carpenter, Brighton. 

Goodwin, George Piermont, 1 844, . Grocer, Boston. 

Gill, Daniel Enfield, Physician, Marblehead. 

Han-iman, John Bridgewater, . . . 1828,. Sign Painter, Boston. 

Huse, Joseph Hill, 1 829, . Stove Dealer, Woburn. 

Hutchins, James K Bath, Boots and Shoes, Boston. 

Hutchins, Horace G.. .Bath, 1835,. Counsellor at Law, . . " 

Harris, John Rumney, 1829, . Book Keeper, " 

Haddock, Chas Hanover, Physician, Beverly. 

Hardy, H. W Grafton, 1847, 

Hovey, George L Lyme, Clergyman Boston. 

Hale, Aaron, Jr Orford, 1 842, . Express Man, " 



GKAFTON COUNTY. 177 

Names. Where from. Date. Bueiness. Present Residence. 

Haynes, Daniel B Rumney, 1825,. Gardener, Boston. 

Hastings, D. B Bath, 1846,. Jeweller, " 

Homan, M. R Cam])ton, 1834, . Provision Dealer, .... Cambridge. 

Hutchins, Ezra C Bath, 1832,. Merchant, Charlcstown. 

Hanaford, W. G Enfield, 1834,.Phy.sician, Boston. 

Jewett, J. W Lebanon, 1839, .Clerk, " 

Kimball, Isaac B Haverhill, 1845,. Dry Goods Salesman, " 

Kimball, Gilman Hill, Physician, Lowell. 

Kent, Samuel P Picrmont, 1832,. W. I. Goods, Boston. 

Ladd, James Haverhill, 1 844, . Insurance Agent, .... " 

Lakeman, Ebenezer. . .Groton, 1837,. Market Man, Charlestown. 

Leighton, J. W Holderness,. . . .1830,. Trader, Boston. 

Merrill, John Warren, 1835,. Broker, Cambridge. 

Merrill, Arthur Haverhill, 1 842,. Broker, " 

Merrill, Haram Alexandria, . . . 1829,. Sexton, Boston. 

Morton, L. P Hanover, 1848, Merchant, " 

Merrill, Amos Binney. Lyman, 1828.. Attorney at Law,. ... " 

Marsh, Christopher . . . Campton, 1834,. Clergyman, West Roxbury. 

Mun-ay, Richard F.. . . Hill, Provision Dealer,. . . .Boston. 

Merrill, Daniel Plymouth, 1810,. Sup't Court House, . . " 

Merrill, Calvin Bristol, 1839,. Driver, " 

Morse, Asa P Haverhill, 1838, .Cooper, Cambridge. 

Mason, Luther Hill, 1 844, . Manufivcturcr, Waltham. 

Norris, Samuel Dorchester, ,. Minister, Maiden. 

Noycs, Samuel Plymouth, 1827, . Trader, Watertown. 

Oliver, P Hanover, Counsellor at Law, . .Boston. 

Palmer, Sam'l Campton, 1830,. Provision Dealer,. . . .Charlestown. 

Palmer, S Orford, 1 834, . Superintendent, Cambridge. 

Porter, Wm Lyme, 1845, .Farmer, Newton. 

Perrin, William H.. . .Oi-ford, 1849,. Attorney at Law,. . . .Boston. 

Pattec, John C Campton, 1824,. Police Officer, " 

Perkins, Charles L. . . . Hanover, 1827, • Merchant, " 

Prescott, Daniel Plymouth, 1809,. Wood and Coal,. ... " 

Prescott, Edward Plymouth, 1 811,. Coal & Wood Dealer,. " 

Palmer, John P Woodstock, . . .1832,. Grocer, " 

Palmer, D. R Woodstock, 

Pratt, Henry Cheever . Orford, 1819,. Artist, Charlestown. 

Porter Eleazer S Lyme, 1837, . Clerk, Boston. 

Paige, Abram Orford, 1 845, . Physician, " 

Ryan, Jabez S Plymouth, 1 835, . W. I. Goods, " 

Russell, M. B Woodstock, . . .1830,. Artist, " 

Bobbins, Asa Plymouth, 1 848, " 

Ramsay, Alexander H.Rumney, 1825, . Apothecary, Cambridge. 

Robbins, Joseph Plymouth, 1829,. Coal & Wood Dealer, Boston. 

Rogers, J. Webster . . .Plymouth, 1841,. Dry Goods, " 

Reynolds, Grindall... .Franconia, 1828,. Clergyman Jamaica Plain. 

Ramsay, Perley A Rumney,- • 1835,. Stereotype Business,. Boston. 

Rogers, William Orford, 1 841 , . Lawyer, Newton. 

Robertson, J. W Thornton, 1830,. Milkman, Quincy. 

Sleeper, S. S Bristol, 1843,. W. I. Goods, Boston. 

Sloper, John Orford, Shoe Maker, Natick. 

Southard, Zibeon Lyme, 1828,. Oil Manufacturer, . . .Boston. 



178 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Names. AVTiere from. Date. Business. Present Residence, 

Sargent, Frederick . . .Hebron, 1842,. Express Man, Lowell. 

StClair, Jonathan . . . Haverhill, Farmer, . . .■ Newton. 

Smith, S. S Haverhill, Clergyman, Westminster. 

Stafford, Charles F.. . .Plymouth, 1837,. Painter, Boston. 

Swasey, John H Haverhill, 1834, . Com. Broker, " 

Smith, Henry W. • . . . . Hanover, 1 845, . Attorney at Law, .... " 

Steele, A. E Lyme, 1832,. Carpenter, " 

Stafford, George L.. . .Plymouth, 1832,. Painter, " 

Shepard, Walter B.. . .Holderuess, .. . .1832,. Clerk, " 

Scott, C. Henry Hanover, Physician, " 

Simonds, Stephen . . . .Alexandria,. . . . 1835,. Boarding House,. . . .Medford. 

Stone, Daniel Hanover, Farmer, Needham. 

Taylor, Sam'l W Campton, 1837,. Student, Cambridge. 

Ticknor, Wm. D Lebanon 1827,. Pub. and Bookseller, Boston. 

Tenny, S. F Hanover, 1842,.For'n W. R.R.Fr'tH. " 

Taylor, John Campton, 1812, .Dealer in Stone, E. Cambridge. 

Turner, Joshua Lyme, 1825,. Carpenter, Boston. 

Worcester, Thos Thornton, 1821,. Clergyman, " 

Waterman, Thomas . .Lebanon, 1817,. Bank Clerk, " 

Wright, W. T Hanover, 1848, . Student, Cincinnati. 

Ward, A. L Plymouth, 1844,. Grocer, Boston. 

Woodard, Daniel Haverhill, 1 839, . Grocer, " 

Woodard, Henry M. . . Haverhill, 1838, . Trader, " 

Welch, F. G Canaan, 1824,. Merchant, " 

Webber, A. D Groton, 1825,. Builder, " 

Willey, T Campton, 1 844, . Lawyer, " 

Williams, Washington . Littleton, 1 836, " 

Young, Ammi B Lebanon 1838,. Architect, " 



COOS COUNTY. 

Brown, John T. Stratford, 1845,- Temple Club, Boston. 

Burbank, Rob't Ingalls.Shelburne, 1843,- Counsellor at Law, • • " 

Freeman, Wm. P. • • • -Lancaster, 1845, " 

Kenney, Isaac A. Whitefield, • • • • 1841, • Baker, Cambridge. 

Loud, Leavitt Dalton, 1836, -Wood & Coal Dealer, -Boston. 

Merriam, Isaac Northumb'rlandl 841,' Collector, " 

Merriam, J. W. Northumb'rlandl821,- Com. Merchant, " 

Moore, Edward B.- • • -Lancaster, 1847, -Physician, " 

Snow, J. H. Whitefield, 1834, -Merchant, Newton. 

Snow, James P. Whitefield, 1835, - Trader, " 

Stephenson, J. H. Lancaster, 1835, -Merchant, Boston. 

Snow, A. B. Whitefield, 1832, -Physician, 

Stebbins. John Lancaster, 1847, " 

Stephenson, F. W. - • - • Lancaster, Newton. 

Stephenson, Geo. A. • -Lancaster, 1838, -Merchant, West Newton, 

White, H. A. Lancaster, 1849,-Clerk, Boston. 

White, S. L. Lancaster, 1835,-Clerk, " 



SECOND FESTIVAL 



SONS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, 



CELEBRATED IN BOSTON, NOVEMBER 2, 1853; 



INCLUDING ALSO AN ACCOUNT OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN BOSTON ON THE DAY OF THE FUNERAL AT 
ilARSHFIELD, AND THE SUBSEQUENT OBSEQUIES COMMEMORATIVE OF THE DEATH OF 



DANIEL WEBSTER, 



PnONOGRAPUIC REPORT BY ALEXANDER C. FELTON, 



BOSTON: 
. JAMES FRENCH AND COMPANY 

78 Washington Stbeet. 

1854. 



Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, 

BY JAMES FRENCH & CO. 

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. 



PrtBS of the 

FRANKLIN PRINTING H0D3B, 

210 Washington Street, 

fiOETOR. 



|iifri}hicti0ii. 



This volume contains an antlientic account of the proceedings of 
the Sons of New Hampshire, together with the speeches, songs and 
sentiments delivered on the occasion of their second Festival, held 
in the city of Boston, November 2, 1853 ; also copies of the letters 
received from such invited guests as were unable to be present, — 
and a registry of names. 

Tliis celebration was to have taken place last year, in conformitv 
with the resolutions passed at the first Festival, but it was postponed 
in consequence of the demise of the President of the Association, 
the lamented Daniel "Webster. 

It has, therefore, been deemed appropriate to incorporate with 
these pages the transactions of the Sons of New Hampshire, in 
connection with those of the citizens of Boston, on the occasion of 
Mr. Webster's death, and the obsequies in honor of his memory. 

It will be seen that the interest manifested in the first Festival 
had not, in the least, declined ; and that this second family gather- 
ing, like the preceding, has afforded the highest gratification to all 
who participated in its pleasures. 

The present volume, it is hoped, will prove not less acceptable 
than the former, both to the members who remain at home and to 
those who have emigrated from the land of theii- birth ; and that 
it may afford another illustration of the veneration and love of New 
Hampshu-e men for their native State, and their laudable desire to 
perpetuate the renown of her sons. 



""^xthtt. 



This volume, recording the transactions of the Sons of New 
Hampshire, at their second Festival in Boston, as expressed in the 
introductory observations, is hercAvith respectfully presented to the 
public. It may be regarded as a historical work of increasing 
interest, more copious than the one that preceded it, and equally 
valuable and interesting. 

The fraternal sentiment that pervaded the assembly and animated 
it in all its proceedings, is a marked feature in the history of this 
organization. The publishers have therefore exerted themselves to 
preserve a faithful record, not only of the Festival, but also of the 
facts and the circumstances Avhich belong to the period in which 
this association took active and laudable measures for honoring the 
memory of their late illustrious President, — and it is believed that 
no volume extant has more minutely preserved an exact memorial 
of the ceremonies, in public and private, in relation to the last 
demonstrations of respect for Mr. Webster. 

It would be unnecessary to describe particularly the contents of 
the accompanying pages, as they exhibit in a lively manner the 
social character, energy and indomitable love of early home asso- 
ciations which were recalled by these festivities. 

Hoping that the work may prove acceptable and honorable to the 
Sons of New Hampshii-e, wherever their lot may be cast, the pub- 
lishers submit the results of their typographical labors to them 
and to posterity with entii'c confidence and sincere regard. 
i» 



Cc lit nits. 



GENERAL. 

Page. 

Appendix, 157 

Arrival of the New Hampshire Legisla- 
ture, 22 

Bill of Fare, 60 

Collation to New Hampshire Legislature, . 50 
Committee to call the next Festival,. . ..154 

Committees of Arrangements, 13 

Correspondence on the Death of Webster,. 21 
Correspondence in regard to Obsequies, . .51 

Death of Mr. Webster, 22 

Decorations on the day of the Funeral,. . . 16 
Decorations on the day of the Obsequies, . . 26 
Decorations of the Hall on the day of 

Festival, 01 

Festival, 59 

Funeral of Mr. Webster, 15 

Grace by Dr. Stow, 08 

Grace by Dr. Peabody, .... 09 

Guests, invited and present, 08 

Introduction, 3 

Obsequies of Mr. Webster, 22 

Officers of the Festival, 56 

Preface, 5 

Preliminary proceedings of 1852, 13 

Proceedings of A. D. 1853, 55 

Procession on the day of the Obsequies, . . 40 

Procession, order of, 07 

Special Meeting, 15,50 

LETTERS. 

Abbot's, 176 

Adams', 176 

Applcton's, Moses L 182 

Appleton's, Samuel 53 



Page. 

Atherton's, 159 

Bell's, 163 

Burke's, 177 

Cass', 78, 159 

Dickinson's, 78, 161 

Eastman's, Ira A 164 

Eastman's, Joel 179 

Elwyn's, 170 

Emerson's, Brown 176 

Emerson's, Ralph 175 

French's, 180 

Gilchrist's, 163 

Gilman's, 175 

Greeley's, 78, 167 

Hale's, 78, 100 

Healy's, 167 

Hillard's, 78, 158 

Hubbard's, 162 

Ingalls', 109 

Martin's, '-1,^1, 157 

Matson's, 168 

M'Clintock's, 184 

McConihe's, 178 

Perley's, 105 

Pierce's, 74 

Plumer's, 105 

Sabine's, 170 

fehurtleff's, 172 

Sullivan's, 101 

Tuck's, 166 

Upham's, 172 

Well's, 180 

Wilder's, 21, 52 

White's, 183 

Woods', 164 



CONTENTS. 



POEMS. 

Page. 

A Song, 153 

Batchelder's, TAe Daughters of New 

Hampshire, 146 

Farley's, Soiis of New Hampshire, 150 

French's, Song, 151 

Kent's, The Granite Slate Gathering, ...131 
Nash's, To the Sons and Scenes of New 

Hampshire, 140 

Shillaber's, A Visio7i about New Hamp- 
shire, 133 

[Jpham's, Nnv Hampshire, 84 

REGISTRY OF NAMES. 

COUNTIES. 

Belknap, 219 

Carroll, 222 

Cheshire, 203 

Coos, 229 

Grafton, 224 

Hillsboro', 196 

Merriinac, 211 

Rockingham, 187 

StrafiFord, 216 

Sullivan, 208 

RESOLUTIONS. 

Adjournment of the First Festival, 13 

Crockett's, to Samuel Appleton, 54 

French's, on Funeral nf Webster at Marsh- 
field, 15 

Gordon's, Third Festival, 85 

Hutehins', Adjournment, 153 

Parker's, Postponement of the Festival,. 15, 20 

Resolution on time of Festival, 20 

Resolution on Archives, 54 

State of New Hampshire, 51 

SENTIMENTS. 

First regular Toast, 73 

Second, 78 

Third, 86 

Fourth, 87 

Fifth, 89 

SLsth, 89 

Seventh, 100 

Eighth, 102 

Ninth, 102 



Page. 

Tenth, 106 

Eleventh, 108 

Twelfth, Ill 

Adams', 177 

Appleton's, 183 

Betton's, 149 

Bingham's, 152 

Bodwell's, 138 

Boylston's, 123 

Brown's, 97 

Bryant's, 150 

Burbank's, 144 

Chandler's, 108 

Chickering's, 149 

Crockett's, 132 

Crosby's, 126 

Dore's, 152 

Dowe's, 151 

Durkee's, 149 

Emerson's, 175 

Foster's, 150 

French's, H. F 115 

French's, James, 150 

Frye's, 138 

Fuller's, 150 

Gookin's, 152 

Greek's, 128 

Greeley's, Horace, 167 

Greely's, Joseph, 151 

llillard's, 158 

Hutehins', 152 

J. W. H.'s 151 

Kent's, 84 

Lord's, 152 

McConihe's, 179 

Miner's, 105 

Pierce's, 74 

Plumer's, 166 

Prentiss' 121 

Sabine's, 171 

Sanborn's, 94 

Sawyer's, 152 

Seavers', 88 

Simmons', 149 

Smith's, 119 

Stow's, 81 

Volunteers, 151, 153 

Walker's, 127 

Wildcr's, 78, 128 

Wilkins' 87 

"Wilson's, , 102 



CONTENTS. 



9 



SPEECnES. 

Page. 

Andrews', 145 

Bodwell's, 136 

Boylston's, 121 

Boutwell's, 25 

Brown's 94 

Burbank's, 143 

Chandler's, 106 

Crosby's, 124 

French's, H. F , Ill 

French's, James 149 

Gordon's, 85 

Greele's, 108 

Iluntoon's, 97 



Page. 

Jewell's, 138 

Kent's, Edward 82 

Kent's, George 128 

Miner's, 102 

Peaslee's, 74 

Prentiss', 119 

Sanborn's, 89 

Scaver's, 87 

Smith's, 116 

Walker's, 126 

AVells', 24, 25, 79 

Wilder's, 23, 69 

Wilkins', 86 

Wilson's, 100 



ktm\)j ftdir f ampfjirt ^[i^stilral, 



HELD IN BOSTON, NOVEMBER 2, 1853. 



SECOND FESTIVAL 



^aus at |lciu Jamp|irL 



At the close of the festivities at the first meeting, November 7th, 1849, 
the following resolution was adopted : 

Resolved, That Tvhen this meeting adjourns, it be to the year of our Lord one thousand 
eight hundred and fifty-two, and that it then be called together by such of its present officers 
as may then be living. 

Ill accordance with the foregoing instruction, meetings were held prepa- 
ratory to a Second Festival, and the following Committees were chosen for 
conducting and completing the arrangements, November 18th, 1852, having 
been selected for the day. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 

FLETCHER WEBSTER, JEROME V. C. SMITU, 

CHARLES A. WELLS, JOSEPH >L BELL, 

DANIEL D. BRODHEAD, N. T. DOW, 

h ^ MARSHALL P. WILDER, 



JOEL PARKER, 
SAMUEL GREELE, 
JAMES W. PAIGE. 



COMMITTEE ON INVITATIONS. 



MARSHALL P. WH.DER, 
(J^CHARLES G. GREENE, 
J. V. C. SMITH, 
CHARLES A. WELLS, 
CHARLES B. GOODRICH, 



GEORGE W. GORDON, 
ISAAC 0. BARNES, 
JOHN P. HEALY, 
FLETCHER WEBSTER, 
DANIEL TAYLOR, 



THOMAS W. PIERCE, 
SAMUEL G. DRAKE, 
ROUEltT I. BURBANK, 
D. H. MASON, 
A. B. MUNROE. 



14 



NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 



COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. 



EBENEZSR CIIADTVICK, 
GEORGE W. CROCKETT, 
JAMES S. Yt'IGGIN, 
DANIEL TAYLOR, 
SAJMUEL BATCIIELDER, 



JOHN S. JEXNESS, 
DANIEL D. BRODUEAD, 
AMMI B. YOUNG, 
ISAAC PARKSR, 
JAMES AY. PAIGE, 



WILLIAM F. PAREOTT 
PARAN STEVENS, 
ISAAC ADAMS, 
JOHN FOSTER, 
GEORGE W. ROBINSON. 



COMMITTEE ON HALL AND DECORATIONS. 



JAMES W. PAIGE, , ,( 

J. V. C. SMITH, 
NATHANIEL D. HUBBARD, 
WILLIAM WASHBURN, 
JAMES A. ABBOTT, 



ROBERT I. EURBANK, 
THOMAS W. PIERCE, 
HENRY WILSON, 
ISAAC W. FRYE, 
PAUL ADAMS, 
JOHN L. EMMONS. 



J. E. HAZELTON, 
MARTIN P. KENNARD, 
CHARLES J. WILDER, 
J. S. CLEMENT, 
J. B. HANSON. 



COMMITTEE ON DINNER, 



CHARLES A. WELLS, 
-^WILLIAM H. PRENTISS, 
DANIEL CHAMBERLIN, 
DAVID BRYANT, 
WILLIAM WASHBURN, 



■WJI. G. HANAFORD, 
THOMAS W. ROBINSON, 
SELDON CROCKETT, 
SAMUEL GREELE, 
CHARLES WILKINS, 



SILAS DURKEE, 
JESSE MAYNARD, 
B. P. CHENEY, 
J. II. SILSBY, 
AVERY PLUMMER. 



HARVEY JEWELL, 
EZRA FOllRISTALL, 
JONAS CHICKERING, 
H. L. HAZELTON, 



COMMITTEE ON MUSIC. 

JABEZ B. UPIIAM, 
TOLMAN WILLEY, 
CHARLES E. WIGGIN, 
WILLIAM II. FARRAR, 
LUCIAN GALE. 



JOSEPH GREELY, 
LAMBERT MAYNARD, 
D. F. McGILVRAY, 
STEPHEN WEEKS. 



SAMUEL GREELE, 
NATHAN T. DOW, 
CHARLES W. MARCH, 
FLETCHER WEBSTER, 



COMMITTEE ON TOASTS. 

JOSEPH JL BELL, 
CHARLES G. GREENE, 
JAMES A. ABBOTT, 
GEORGE KENT, 
STEPHEN G. NASH. 



J. T. FIELDS, 
HENRY WILSON, 
F. E. PARKER, 
LUTHER V. BELL. 



COMMITTEE ON PRINTING, DESIGNS, AND BANNERS. 



ISAAC W. FRYE, 
JAMES FRENCH, 
GEORGE AV. BAZIN, 



KEMBALL GIBSON, 
A. G. IIOYT, 
HUGH H. TUTTLE, 



JOHN C. DORE, 
JOHN TERRILL, 
EIIASTUS RUGG. 



While tlie Committees were attending to their various duties, the death of 
the illustrious President of the Association was announced. The nation 
was in mourning for the loss of its most disti.niruished son. The events of 



* Deceased. 



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tliat particular period belong to the general hi.'^tory of our common country, 
and need not, therefore, be repeated in this connection. 

The Festival was very properly, and, by the unanimous consent of all 
parties interested in its fraternal objects, at once suspended. 

At a Special 3Ieeting of the Committees of the Sons of New Hampshire, 
held at the Revere House, October 26, 1852, Marshall P. Wilder pre- 
siding, — after some eloquent and feeling remarks from the Chairman, 
Joel Parker, N. C. Betton, J. P. Ilealy, N. T. Dow, Samuel Batchelder, 
Isaac Parker, George W. Ciordon, Charles A. Wells, James French, and 
others, on the occasion of the death of Mr. Webster, — on motion of Joel 
Parker, it was 

Voted, That the proposed Festival bo postponed for the present, and that a Committee of 
seven be appointed to take into consideration the subject of drafting resolutions in the 
name of the Sons of New Hampshire, expressive of their sense of the loss which they havo 
experienced, in common with the nation, in the death of their elder brother — the favorite 
and most gifted son of Xew Hampshire — and to report what measures are expedient to bo 
taken in relation to the time of holding their next festival. 

The Committee consisted of Joel Parker of Cambridge, John P. Healey, 
N. T. Dow, Samuel Batchelder, Isaac Parker, David Bryant, Gr. W. 
Gordon, M. P. Wilder and R. I. Burljank, of Boston. 

It was also, on motion of Jas. French, 

Voted, That the Committee recommend the " Sons of New Ilampshirc " to wear crape on 
the left arm for thirty days; and also attend the funeral of Mi\ Webster at Marshfield. 

After a vote that the Chairman and Secretary call a meeting of the Com- 
mittee, at such time and place as they think proper, the meeting adjourned. 

The meeting was fully attended, and the proceedings were thrillingly and 
mournfully interesting to every person present. 

It is proper to observe that a large delegation of the Sons of New Hamp- 
shire attended the funeral obsequies of Mr. Webster, at IMarshfield, and 
were present when the last remains of the great statesman were placed in the 
tomb of his own construction, where they are to repose till the last trumpet 
shall awake the dead to life everlasting. 

lu Boston, on the 29th October, 1852, the day of the funeral, the metrop- 
olis of New England was dressed in weeds of woe. The places of business, 
the warehouses, public institutions, and offices were generally closed, out of 
respect to the memory of departed greatness. We copy the following from 
the Boston Courier : 

Though the work was only voluntarily the act of individuals, it was very 



Jg NEW HAMrSHlRE FESTIVAL. 

general. "Washington, Hanover, and many other streets were covered 
with black, interspersed with mottoes, flags, portraits, and other mementoes. 
The mourning decorations were so general that it seems invidious to select 
a portion for particular mention, yet some were so exceedingly tasteful and 
appropriate that we have gathered a portion as a matter of interest and 
record, which are given below. 

WASHINGTON STREET. 

From the corner of Court and Washington streets, on both sides, to the 
Boylston Market, the buildings were heavily hung with mourning, and 
appropriate inscriptions abounded. 

Fkederick Brown's Apothecary Shop was covered from top to bottom 
with drapery. 

The Book Store of James French was lined with mourning, and on the 
door was the following inscriptions : 

"July Oth, 1852, My store was closed to honor the greatest man living." — "Now, Oct. 
29th, closed to honor the illustrious great, whose loss a nation mourns." 

"I still live.' 'Men die, principles live.' " 

Adams's Express Office was most tastefully fitted up, and besides heavy 
mourning drapery, the American flag was displayed at half mast, dressed 
in crape. 

On the corner of School street, was a bust of Mr. "Webster, overhung with 
drapery. 

The China Tea Stoke appeared to good advantage. On one side of the 
door was inscribed : 

''He is dead — the foe of despots, and the friend of man." On the other — "A nation 
mourns her chieftain dead." 

Chas. a. Vinton displayed creditable skill in the manner of trimming his 
establishment. The window bore the following inscription : 

" I will still be the guiding star of the nation." 
"Calhoun, Clay, Webster." 

The Franklin Printing House, 210 "Washington street, was very hand- 
somely decorated. The American flag, draped in mourning, with black and 
white streamers, suspended from the front of the building, made an elegant 
display. 

The Adams House was covered heavily with drapery. 

In the window of the store of Jones, Ball & Poor was an elegant life- 
like portrait of Mr. Webster. 



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W. F. Shaw's store was most tastily arranged, and attracted, perhaps, 
more notice than any other in the neighborhood. A shield was exhibited 
from one of the windows with thirteen stars on its borders, surrounded by 
a heavy drapery of black velvet. This was much admired. 

Partridge's store, No. 201, presented a solemn appearance. The 
motto — 

"lie ill glory — America in tears," 

showed finely, and a wax figure, representing Columbia in mourning, added 
to the attraction. 

The store of Hill, Lincoln & Geer was arrayed in deep mourning, 
and displayed a tastciul mourning alcove, enclosing a bust of Webster. 

Last, but not the least in importance that came to our view, was the cele- 
brated Piano Manufictory of Jonas Cuickering. The draperies on this 
were ranged in a very superior style, and were the theme of universal 
praise. The liberal occupant had placed on his balcony a solid marble bust 
of Webster, and under it were the following lines : 

"We've scanned the a-jtious of liis daily life, and nothing meets our eyes but deeds of 

honor." 

On a flag running from his establishment across the street was the follow- 
ing beautiful and appropriate motto : 

" E 'en as the tenderness that hour distills, 
"WTien summer day declines along the hills, 
So feels the fullness of the heart and eyes, 
When all of genius that can perish, dies." 

Another flag bore these words : 

" Some, when they die, die all. Their mouldering clay is but an emblem of their memo- 
ries. But he has lived, lie leaves a work behind which shall pluck the shining age from 
vulgar time, and give it whole to later posterity." 

The display at the store of Bent & Busii, corner of Washington and 
Court streets, was exceedingly chaste. Festoons in profusion were dis- 
j)layed, and a bust of the lamented patriot was clothed in black, and sur- 
mounted by the inscription — 

"Ilis body is buried in peace, but his name livcth evermore ! " 

COURT STREET. 

The store of Henry Prentiss was splendidly fitted up. An elegant 
bust of Webster was erected on the balcony, with a wreath around the 
head, and enshrouded by the American flag. In front of the bust was a 



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miniature model of a ship's steering apparatus, designed to personify the 
helm of the " Ship of State," with the encircling motto — 

" "Where is the hand to guide it 1 " 

The bust bore the inscription — 

" Nations will mourn Columbia's loss." 

Nathaniel Ellis's store made a good appearance, and displayed an in- 
scription bearing these words : 

"Daniel W'ebster, the Washington of the 19th Century." 

The Club Eoom of the Boston City Guards, on the corner of Court and 
Hanover streets, and that of the Boston Light Guard, -were tastily arranged. 
The former had a large flag displayed, with the following inscriptions 
affixed : 

"The nation mourns." 

"Now to his ashes honor." 
"Peace bo with him, and choirs of angels sing him to his rest." 

On the right was a small flag, with the inscription — 

"I still live," 

and on the left hand another, with these words : 

"lie was not for an ago, but for all time." 

Following up Court street, we came to No. 110, and were forcibly struck 
with the interest here presented. On the outside of the building was 
written in glowing letters — 

" America's unhappy hour." 

Accompanying this was a hand pointing to the time beneath — 22 minutes 
of 3 o'clock — the hour at which Mr. Webster expired. 

The Revere House at the end of the street was draped gracefully. 

TREMONT STREET. 

Webster Head Quarters — the flag was heavily clothed in mourning, and 
the following motto, affixed : 

"Men die, principles live," 

The "Pavilion" made a very showy appearance, and the inscriptions 
were precisely to the point, which were as follows : 

" Death is the Crown of Life." 

"I still live." 
"We mourn our Country's loss." 



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19 



The Tremont House also appeared to good advantage, and the pillars 
that support the awnings were decorated in a proper manner. On the bal- 
cony was an elegant bust of Mr. Webster, with a poplar tree of good size 
overhanging it. 

The WiNTKROP House beyond any of the chief hotels, however, earned 
credit by the taste, simplicity, and yet propriety and completeness of its 
decorations — and the whole arrangement received the approbation of all 
who witnessed it. 

TREMONT ROW. 

This street was decorated in most appropriate style, and the stores in 
the vicinity presented a truly mournful appearance. 

Lafayette Ex-lS's Club Koom showed elegantly, and busts of Lafayette 
and Hancock, handsomely dressed in crape, were displayed from the win- 
dows of their rooms. 

BROMFIELD STREET. 

The Mercantile Library Association displayed a flag bearing the 
following : 

" Ilonored in Life, — Lamented in Death." 

Reverse — 

" Webster — a name not made to die I " 

DOCK SQUARE. 

The store of Earl W. Johnson was handsomely fitted up, as also that 
of John K. Simpson, whose place of business is the oldest in the city. The 
new and elegant building of Messrs. John Gove & Co., six stories high, 
was literally covered from attic to cellar with trappings of mourning, so 
disposed as to give a most impressive cifect. 

The Courier Office, and Messrs. Chase, Brothers & Co. in connection, 
put up a new placard yesterday, bearing the following extract of Mr. 
Hillard's late speech in Faneuil Hall : 

"The shadow of him we hare lost is more than the living forms of all who are left." 

The American Patriot flag was flying in Congress street, with the full 
mourning insignia on its borders, and the building was dressed in good 
taste. 

HANOVER STREET 

was thoroughly arrayed in mourning drapery, the stores through the whole 
extent being abundantly ornamented with appropriate emblems of grief. 



20 KEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

On the American House was a flag at half-mast, and the decorations 
about the hotel were very tastefully disposed. The Diamond Block on the 
other side of the street also appeared to good advantage. 

• There was an innumerable quantity of flags suspended in this quarter, 
and the show through the whole street was very imposing. Jude Snow & 
Hill, preeminently above others, attracted public attention, by the chaste- 
ness and propriety of their demonstration. 

There were many more decorations in various portions of the city, which 
cannot conveniently be chronicled. 



The following action and correspondence of the " Sons of New Hamp- 
shire,"' exhibit the energetic measures pursued by them to honor the 
memory of their late friend and President. 

At a very full meeting of the Sons of New Hampshire, holden at the 
Revere House, on Saturday evening, Nov. Gth, Hon. Marshall P. "Wilder 
presiding, the following resolutions were reported, and unanimously 
adopted : — 

Resolved, That in the death of Daniel Webster, the State of New Hampshire has lost 
the most eminent of her sons, the United States their greatest statesman, and the world one 
of its most distinguished jurists. 

Resolved, That while in common with others wc liavo venerated Iiim for his majestic in- 
tellect, honored him for his wise and patriotic counsels and great public services, and share 
in the general grief which pervades the whole country upon the occasion of this national 
bereavement, he has been endeared to us still more by his private virtues, the kindness of 
his heart, and the warmth of his aifections. 

Resolved, That this afflictive dispensation of Divine Providence, more especially as it has 
removed the officer appointed to preside at our proposed festival, renders that festival inap- 
propriate at the present time, and that, as a token of respect to his memory, it be post- 
poned. 

Resolved, That we respectfully tender the expression of our warmest sympathies to the 
family and relatives of Mr. "Webster, and that the Chairman be requested to transmit to 
them a copy of these resolutions. 

The following resolution was also passed : 

Resolved, That the officers who have been elected, appoint a suitable time and place for 
holding the festival in the year 1853. 

A vote was also passed to attend the obsequies of Mr. Webster in this 
city. 



CORKESPONDENCE. 



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|nbilatio« to i^t €xmxtjbt mv3 ITrgislatwrc of ^cb |jampsbirc. 

Boston, Nov. 22, 1862. 
To His Excellency, NoAn Martix, Governor of JVew Hampshire : 

Dear Sir : 

The " Sons of New Hampshire," resident in this city and vicinity, 
having resolved to attend the obsequies which are to take place in Boston 
on the 30th instant, in memory of their brother and President, the late 
Daniel Webster ; and having noticed that the Executive Department and 
the Honorable Senate and the House of Representatives of their native State 
propose to join in these ceremonies ; therefore the undersigned do most re- 
spectfully invite the aforesaid honorable bodies to unite with our association 
on this occasion. 

With sentiments of the highest consideration, 
Your ob't servant, 

MARSHALL P. WILDER, 

Chairman. 
Per Order Executive Committee. 

^fjjlg ai |)is €mlUitcg, d^o&cntor P^adiu, ia lljc ubok. 

CouNcii. Chamber, Concord, N. n. > 
Nov. 26, 1852. 5 

My Dear Sir : 

The very kind and polite invitation, through you, of the " Sons of New 
Hampshire, residing in Boston," to the Executive Department, the Honor- 
able Senate and the House of Representatives of the government of New 
Hampshire, to join with them, as a distinct body, in the solemnities to be 
celebrated in your city, on the 30th inst., in commemoration of the illustri- 
ous deceased, Daniel Webster, has been received, and considered, and, in 
response, I am happy to say, has been most cordially accepted by all these 
departments. 

It seems peculiarly appropriate that we should specially unite with your 
organization in paying a tribute of mournful respect to the memory of one 
who was New Hampshire's by birth, Massachusetts' by adoption, and the 
Union's, the world's, by greatness. 

With the highest consideration, 

I am your obedient servant, 

NOAII MARTIN. 

To lion. M. P. Wilder, Boston, Mass., Committee, etc. 



NEW HAMPSniliE FESTIVAL. 



Beat!) of pit. SSlciJStcr. 

. On the 30th of November, 1852, a public Eulogy was delivered in Bos- 
ton before the Municipal Authorities and the inhabitants generally, on the 
Life, Character, and Public Services of the late Daniel Webster. The 
Sons of New Hampshire invited the Legislature, then in session in Concord, 
to attend the public services, and become their guests. They accepted the 
invitation, and both branches were met on their arrival at the Lowell depot, 
by the Sons, marshalled under the banners of their respective counties. 



(D li s c I] n its. 



The subjoined extract, taken from the Boston Journal, will give a fair 
illustration of the general interest and deep sympathy evinced by the Sons 
of New Hampshire in the obsequies, Nov. 30th, 



In iHcmova of 



Z\txx hfc |]rcstbtnt. 



In accordance with the previous arrangements, the citizens of Boston, with 
those of their fellow citizens from other places who saw fit to join them, unitedT 
in paying their tribute of respect to the memory of the patriot and statesman, 
Daniel Webster. The obsequies were arranged in much good taste, and 
were carried out to the satisfaction of all. The weather, though chilly, was 
not uncomfortable, and thousands thronged the streets to witness the mourn- 
ful pageant. 

The first matter of interest was the 

ARRIVAL OF THE NEW HAMrSIIIRE LEGISLATURE. 

The Council, Senate, and members of the New Hampshire House of Re- 
presentatives, assembled in the Capitol, at Concord, yesterday morning, at 
sis o'clock. But few of either branch of the government were absent. 



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On Monday afternoon, the Select Committee reported to the Legislature, 
that in accordance with instructions, they had -waited on Hon. Franklin 
Pierce, who had charged them with an expression of his gratitude for the 
invitation to join the Legislature in attending the obsequies of Daniel AYeb- 
ster, at Boston ; but that engagements he could not obviate precluded him 
from accepting it. 

Governor Martin arrived in Concord on I\Ionday, hopeful of being enabled 
to attend the funeral ceremonies ; but an obdurate illness, of several days 
duration, compelled him to resign his intention late that evening. 

The cars left Concord at a quarter past six o'clock, and after a very 
pleasant journey the "assembled wisdom " of the old Granite State, accom- 
panied by numbers of citizens, reached the Lowell depot, in this city, at nine 
o'clock. Here they were met by the " Sons of New Hampshire," with their 
Chairman, M. P. Wilder, at their head. The President of the New 
Hampshire Senate, the Executive Council and the Legislature, were then 
introduced to Mr. Wilder by Mr. J. H. Wiggin, of Dover, Chairman of the 
New Hampshire Legislative Committee on the Resolves concerning the Death 
of Daniel Webster. Mr. Wilder addressed them as follows : 

Mr. President of the Senate, 

and Ge?iilc??ie7i of the New Hampshire Legislature: 

In behalf of the Sons of New Hampshire, resident in Boston and vicinity, 
I bid you welcome to this city, and to the State of our adoption. 

The afflictive dispensation of Providence which has assembled us together 
this morning, and the objects of our meeting are so well known to all as to 
need only a brief explanation from me. 

A mighty one has fallen ! Our elder brother, New Hampshire's favorite 
son, is no more ! All that was mortal of Daniel Webster, the great American 
expounder of constitutional authority and national rights, has been consigned 
to the bosom of his mother earth ! 

The loss to us, to the country and the world, is irreparable. The whole 
nation mourns ; our city is hung in the drapery of woe, and " the mourners 
go about the streets." 

New Hampshire claims the honor of Mr. Webster's birth, and among the 
millions who are afflicted in the general bereavement, none, I am sure, are 
more sincere mourners than her sons. As brethren of the same family, we 
receive you with true fraternal affection ; and we unite our sympathies, and 
mingle our tears with yours. 

But in this hour of our trial and sorrow, let us not forget that our loss is 
his unspeakable gain. While we mourn, let us thank God that he was 
spared to us so long — that he was enabled to do so much for us, and 



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NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 



for the cause of universal freedom and humanity, and that his sun was per- 
mitted to go down unclouded, and shining in the greatness of its strength. 

Gentlemen, it is not my province to pronounce his eulogy ; that duty will 
be performed by abler men and more gifted lips. Daniel Webster is dead ! 
We shall see that majestic form no more ! But his fame is immortal. It 
is registered on the hearts of his grateful countrymen. Yes, and it shall be 
transmitted unsullied and untarnished through all coming ages ; and when 
the monumental marble shall have crumbled into dust, it shall " still live! " 
It shall live forever!! 

Hon. John S, Wells, President of the Senate of New Hampshire, then 
replied as follows : 

Mr. President and Gentlemen^ 

" Sans of New Hampshire : " 
The representatives of the people of New Hampshire have postponed, for 
this day, their official duties, that they may join the citizens of Massachusetts 
in doing honor to the memory of him whose birthplace, like yours, was sur- 
rounded by the wild scenery of our mountains, but whose fame is limited only 
by the bleak regions of ignorance and barbarism. We thank you, gentlemen, 
for your kind civilities to us on this occasion, and trust that the impressions of 
this day may induce in us a warmer love for our native State, and a more 
ardent desire for the preservation of our common country. 

At the conclusion of Mr. Wells's remarks, he, together with Messrs. Moses 
Eaton, Jos. II. Smith, Samuel Butterfield, James Batcheller, and Russell 
Cos, of the Executive Council ; Hon. Geo. W. Kittredge, Speaker of the 
New Hampshire House of Representatives, the Executive Committee, Mem- 
bers of the Senate, and others were personally introduced to the President, 
Ofl&cers and Marshals of the Sons of New Hampshire, and a very general 
introduction took place. 

Mr. Wells, with the Executive Council, Senators, etc., took seats in 
barouches, provided for them by the Association, and a procession, led 
oflF by Hall's Lowell Brass Band, was formed under the direction of B. P. 
Cheney, Esq., Acting Chief Marshal, (in the absence of Col. Hutchins, con- 
fined by sickness,) and the guests of the Association were escorted through 
several streets to the State House. They were here ushered into the Repre- 
sentatives' Hall, where they met Gov. Boutwell and Staff, and the Members 
of the Executive Council. Hon. Mr. Wilder then introduced to His Excel- 
lency the Hon. Mr. Wells, and the New Hampshire Legislature, who were 
welcomed by Gov. Boutwell in the following remarks : 



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Mr. President and Gentlemeji of the Excaitive 

and Legislative Depart7?ie?its of New Hampshire : 
Occasions of mourning come to communities and nations as tliey do to 
individuals and families of the human race. This is an unusual asscnib]a<Te 
Massachusetts and New Hampshire have together passed through scenes of 
trial and suffering, and together enjoyed the nation's triumphs, and partici- 
pated in the nation's prosperity. But now in the general bereavement they 
are peculiarly afflicted. New Hampshire has had no such other son ; Mas- 
sachusetts has had no such other citizen as Webster. Amid the solemni- 
ties of death the differences of life shall be forgotten, and from the common 
grief shall spring sentiments of patriotism and religion, whose influence shall 
be felt in coming centuries of our country's existence. Gentlemen, we ac- 
cept your presence as an elevated token of respect for the illustrious dead, 
and as an assurance that, with the other States of this confederacy, our 
principles, our hopes, our destiny, are one. 

Mr. Wells responded as follows : 
Sir: 

In the absence of His Excellency Gov. Martin, it is the duty incum- 
bent on me to say, that the several branches of the Legislature of New 
Hampshire have met your Excellency and the citizens of Massachusetts here 
to-day, to join in the ceremonies to be observed by you in honor of the 
memory of the late Daniel Webster. The sable drapery of the Legislative 
halls from whence we departed this morning, exhibits the outward sign of 
that sadness which pervades not only the hearts of the members of the New 
Hampshire Legislature, but of the Sons of New Hampshire everywhere, on 
account of this national bereavement. They, with you, lament the departure 
hence of the illustrious Webster. His fame belongs to the nation : his birth- 
place was amid our mountains ; he was trained under the rigid discipline of 
New Hampshire schools. He went forth from his native State majestic in per- 
son and mind — towering above all competition — even as our famed Mount 
Washington elevates its crest above all surrounding objects, and stayed 
not in its upward flight, until it established itself as one of the loftiest, 
brightest, and noblest intellects on earth. And we have come here to-day 
to give force, if possible, to the hand which shall inscribe on the brazen 
tablets of enduring earthly memory the record of his mental greatness. 
Though a majority of this body disagreed with the late Mr. Webster in 
the leading political doctrines of his life, yet, as an orator, a scholar and 
a jurist, they have ever referred to him with pride and satisfaction ; and 
when the black cloud of disiinion was seen in the distance, and angry, con- 



26 NEW HAMPSniRE FESTIVAL. 

vulsive feelings were aroused throughout our land, the}^ gh"dly listened to 
the voice of Webster, as it rung, clear and powerful, above the excited ele- 
ments, urging his countrymen to the patriotic duty of standing by the 
Unio7i and the Constitution, 

Then it was, sir, that the mass of New Hampshire hearts were turned, 
warmly, towards him. That act of patriotic devotion to his country swept 
into forgetfulness years of political hostility; and when it was told us that 
his great light was sinking beneath the horizon of life, the freemen of New 
Hampshire mingled their thankfulness of heart with their patriotic country- 
men that he could depart with the assurance that he left but few " seeking 
to look beyond the Union to see what might lie hidden behind." They sin- 
cerely rejoiced that, when for the " last time he turned his eyes to behold 
the sun in heaven, he did not see him shining on the broken and dishonored 
fragments of a once glorious Union ; " but that his " last and lingering 
glance did behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and 
honored throughout the earth — not a stripe erased or polluted — not a 
single star obscured — bearing not for its motto the miserable interrogatory, 
' What is all this worth?' — but that other sentiment, dear to every true 
American heart — ' Liberty a7id U^iion, nciv and forever, one and inse'pa- 
rable!'" 

The opportunity was then embraced for an interchange of courtesies; and 
after a short interval pleasantly spent in this manner, each party withdrew 
to join in the public procession. Previous to which, however, Hon. Mr, 
Wilder, in behalf of the " Sons of New Hampshire," invited the gentlemen 
of the New Hampshire Legislature to partake of a collation at the Revere 
House, at four o'clock, which invitation was accepted. 

THE PROCESSION 

was then formed, and proceeded to Faneuil Hall to hear the Eulogy by the 
Hon. George S. Hillard. 

DECOEATIOXS OX THE ROUTE. 

At early morn crowds began to throng the streets to witness the decora- 
tions. Our reporters have given the following sketch of the displays made 
on the entire route of the procession : 

The front of City Hall was very plainly decorated, there being a simple 
line of white cloth, with festoons of black underneath, around the balus- 
trade. Passing into 

SCHOOL STREET, 

the buildings occupied by White & Hanson, and Gakdner G. Tufts, were 
trimmed with white and black cloth. 



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TREMONT STREET. 

Alcna: the balustrade of the Albion was the inscriptions — 

"Death is the Crown of Life." 

"I still live." 

" AVe mourn our Country's loss." 

Looking down Tremont, towards Court street, the Webster Head Quar- 
ters appeared heavily draped. The Museu.ai was also tastily festooned. 
Sylvester Almy and Dr. Puelps also trimmed their respective stores. 
The Tremont House was trimmed with streamers of black, and the pillars 
in front vrere shrouded; on the front of the portico were the inscriptions — 
"Freedom of Thought, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Action." 
" Honor to the Good, the Just, the Free." 

Across the street was an American flag, draped, and bearing the inscrip- 
tion — . 

" Thou art mighty yet. Thy spirit walks abroad." 

Gleason's Publishing House was covered with the drapery of mourn- 
ing, American flags, &c. In front was a shield bearing across the front 
the motto — 

" Vera pro gratis." 

From this a monument extended upwards, surmounted with a gilt eagle, 
and tastily surrounded with drapery. Flags were thrown across the street, 
and between them were the following inscriptions — 

"Champion of the Constitution — Defender of the Union." 
"The great heart of the Nation throbs heavily at the portals of his grave." 

The building was surmounted by the American flag at half-mast. John 
Gilbert, Jr.'s store was trimmed tastefully. The building occupied by B. 
F. Cooke and Dr. Hannaford, had in front a large mourning diamond, 
inscribed as follows : 

D. 

" I still live." 

Yea, 

and will forever live 

in the hearts of 

his 

countrj'men. 

W. 

A. C. JMayhew hung the front of his store with the emblems of mourning. 
In front of Dr. Adams's residence was a fine bust of Webster, with an urn 
on each side. T. Bautlett's house was neatly decorated. John Simmon's 



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fine residence Tvas hung in front with black velvet, giving it a very rich ap- 
pearance. In the centre of the balustrade was a portrait of Webster, sur- 
mounted bj an eagle, and in each corner a shield — one bearing the name 
of Webster, and the other that of Wellington. The whole presented a 
fine appearance. The block of buildings from Temple place to West street, 
was hung with heavy festoons. In the centre of the block was an alcove 
containing a bust of Webster, and surmounted by gilt stars. The front of 
J. Mason's residence, and Xo. 139, was festooned. Mr. Goddard's resi- 
dence, IGl, was very beautifully decorated with folds, festoons, streamers, 
flags, etc. It was one of the finest shows in the street. In front of Mr. 
White's, 102, was a bust of Webster, with the inscription — 

" One Destiny." 

The front of Gen. Tvler's residence was very handsomely trimmed with 
panel work, rosettes, etc. On the balcony was a marble urn, placed on a 
pedestal, and trimmed with crape. Da. Betiiune, B. Goriiam, and Dr. S. 
Parkman, also decorated their buildings. The brick block extending south 
from Mason street, was hung in black. In the centre was a canopy with a 
bust of Webster — with the inscription — 

"The glory of thy life, like the day of thy death, shall not fail from the remembrance 

of man." 

No. 178 was festooned in front. The Wixturop House came nest, and 
presented a fine appearance. The pillars in front were wound with black 
and white, and the arches and cornices of the portico were hung with grace- 
ful festoons. Over the portico was a bust of Webster, and under it the 
words — 

"I still live." 

From every window was displayed a neat mourning flag. Across the 
street was a line of flags, the centre one inscribed — 

"A Xation's Loss." 

The Hall, corner of Boylston street, was trimmed with festoons and stars, 
and showed a portrait of Webster, heavily craped. Turning into 

B Y L S T X STREET, 

a beautiful arch, erected by the Boston Light Dragoons, met the eye. 
It was surmounted by an alcove built of black velvet, studded with silver 
stars, and contained a bust of Webster, wearing a wreath of laurel. On 
each side of the alcove was a gold eagle, trimmed with crape. The cor- 



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ncrs of the arch, bore the American flag, craped, and in front was the 
inscription — 

"To his country he still Hvls, and lives forever." 

Underneath this were festoons of evergreen, and wrought in letters of 
the same, the words — 

"Boston Light Dragoons." 

The front and interior of the Dragoons' Armory were also finely trimmed. 
The residences of E. H.\sket Derby, C. "Wilkins, G. M. Dexter, and a 
block of swell-front buildings from No. Gi to 7-1, inclusive, were festooned 
along the balconies. 

PLEASANT STREET. 

The old Armory, the head quarters of the Boston Artillery, was 
very prettily trimmed, and filled with a fine display of fair women. 
Peaff's Hotel, Joseph Davis's store, and the block of brick buildings suc- 
ceeding it, were trimmed with white and black. The residences of E. 
Brown and William Beck were festooned, and had streamers from the 
roof to the balcony. On the balcony was a bust of Webster, and beneath 
it the inscription — 

"lie in glory — America in tears." 

The brick house on the corner of Pleasant street court appeared well. 
In the window of the store was a portrait of Webster, and the motto — 

" Let us emulate his example." 

The residences of G. Paul, J. Daily, M. Eiirlich, W. H. Garfield, 
and F. W. Dickinson, were trimmed. Across the street was a large flag, 
bearing the name of 

"Daniel Webster." 

In front of 3Ir. Croome's residence was a bronze bust of Webster, J. 
Gay displayed festoons and streamers. Xo. 55, and Mr. Hastings' resi- 
dence, Nos. 47 and 49, were well trimmed. The residences of J. A. 
Fletcher, and S. Meek, were profusely trimmed with mourning flags, 
streamers, etc. In front of Mr. Meek's was a portrait of Webster, and 
of Mr. Fletcher's, the inscription — 

"Xone knew him but to love him." 

The rear of Warren Street Chapel presented a fine appearance. In 
each of the windows were banners, trimmed with black. On a black 
ground, in letters of white, was the inscription — 

'•'The silver cord is loosed, the golden bowl is broken." 
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Over the door was a canopy of flags surmounting a pedestal, on which was 
an urn. The decorations were set oiF at diflFerent points with wreaths and 
rosettes of evergreen, adding much to their beauty. J. Kichards showed 
a portrait of Webster, and a profusion of drapery. Sydney Fisuer, and 
A. A. Ranney decorated their buildings. Mr. E. C. Wheelock trimmed 
the front of his building with festoons. Over the door was the name of 
Webster, and above this a pedestal surmounted by an urn. The base of 
the pedestal was inscribed — 

" A tribute to departed greatness." 

A flag across the street was inscribed — 

■' Though Death has triumj^hed, Destiny has given his fame to Honor, and his soul to 

Heaven." 

On the reverse — 

"The Star of the East has set." 

The buildings of J. Hendley, and that on the corner, were well trimmed. 

WASHINGTON STREET. 

Ward nine Whig Head Quarters were marked by an American flag 
trimmed with black. On a small flag was the motto — 

"His memory will live forever." 

Alvin Dexter, C. M. Cox, 11. W. Dutton, C. II. Riciiardson, Dr. 
Reed, J. Jenkins, W. Babson, Dr. Dupee, each made an appropriate dis- 
play. 

OAK STREET. 
The front of Xo. 9 was well trimmed. 

IN HARRISON AVENUE, 

a fine display was made. Mr. J. F. Bryant made a profuse display of 
white and black bunting. Mr. J. K. Porter hung his house very tastily 
with mourning drapery. In front was a column, on which was hung a 
portrait of Webster, with a shield beneath, and a gilt eagle above. Over 
all was an American flag, draped. In front of the building was the 
inscription — 

'' That glorious orb Tvhich has for so many years given light to our footsteps, has set in 

death." 

The house of Mr. John E. Abbott, opposite, was decorated in a similar 
manner. Upon the shield were the words — 

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The inscription on Mr. Abbott's liouse was — 



" Then this Daniel was preferred above the Presidents and Princes, because an excellent 

spirit was in him." 

Across the street was a flag inscribed — 

"Webster ! Born for the universe; he narrowed his sphere, and gave himself to America." 

The house of A, Gifford was well trimmed, and a flag displayed, 
inscribed — 

" I thank my God I never said ought of him." 

Isaac Emery, M. A. Ellis, J. Ellis, J. C. Warren, and S. Tilton, re- 
spectively made fine displays. The house of C. Gifford was very prettily 
festooned, and bore the motto — 

" Ilis soul to God, his deeds to fame." 

In front was a bust of Webster, inscribed — 

" Not dead, but gone before." 

Beneath was a roll of parchment, representing the " Constitution." 
Messrs. Andrews, Stkdman, Wariuon, and Siiattuck, made good displays. 
Mr. Warren showed a bust of Webster, craped, and surmounted by a bou- 
quet of flowers. M. S. Parker, S. Dalton, J. Bliss, the Fountain House, 
Francis S. Dyer, Dr. A. A. Watson, and S. W. Winslow, each made a 
good display. In front of the house of Mr. Winslow was the inscription — 

"Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets." 
BEACH STREET. 

J. Barker, Mr. Welch, Mr. Proctor, Mr. Shirley, J. J. Bigelow, J. 
M. Ordway, made each good displays. The United States Hotel appeared 
finely. It was hung round with festoons. A canopy of black was erected 
from the portico to the roof, in the centre of which was a bust of Webster 
craped. On each corner of the porlico were shields inscribed — 

" Liberty and Union, now and forever." 

The Worcester Piailroad Depot was appropriately decorated. The 
building on the opposite corner was covered with black, and had the motto — 

"I still live." 

It was put up by Mr. Smalhvood. 



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LINCOLN STREET, 



AViiitney's Hotel, the Buffalo House, and Dr. Clarke's house were 
each decorated. The house occupied bj A. Blood and S. B. Wheeler 
had the inscription — 

"So fades, so languislies, grows dim and dies, all that this world is proud of." 

The block of buildings from No. 2 to 16 were decorated along the three 
stories. In front of No. 16, — Samuel Hatch's, — was a bust of the de- 
parted statesman. At No. 11, the residence of Curtis Guild, one of Ball's 
beautiful busts of Webster was displayed upon a mourning pedestal, sup- 
ported by the American shield, draped witb crape, the whole festooned by 
the American flag, and mourning decorations appropriately disposed. 

SUMMER STREET. 

The residences of James W. Paige and B. Loring were heavily hung 
with black. Those of Rev. Dr. Fkothingham and Edward Everett were 
also trimmed, and displayed a bust of Webster craped. Mrs. Perkins also 
made a good display. IMr. J. B. Kimball showed the motto, amid 
drapery, of — 

"When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in the heavens, may I 
not see him shining on the broken and disbanded fragments of a once glorious Union." 

" Our poor works may perish, but thine shall endure." 

" I speak to-day fur the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause." 

" Captatores verborum." 

" Liberty and Union — now and forever." 

"I still live." 

Chandler & Co., opposite, made a fine display, showing a portrait and bust 
of Webster, and handsome panel work of mourning drapery, etc. Mr. Cur- 
rier's was also well trimmed. The corner buildings of Summer, Wash- 
ington, and Winter streets, all looked beautiful. Jones, Ball & Company 
trimmed their corner with a profusion of mourning drapery, tastefully 
arranged in alcoves, in which were placed a bust and portrait of Webster. 
Beneath the bust was the motto — 

"I still live." 

Between that and the portraits was the large eagle bearing in his beak a 
mourning shield. On each side were American flags and urns. The whole 



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appearance was rich and beautiful. Orlando Tojipkins' store, opposite, was 
also beautifully dressed. On the front were the inscriptions — 

"October 21, 1852."— "I still live." 

"A nation's glory and a people's trust, 
Lie in the ample shroud with Webster's dust." 

In the centre window was a bust of Webster wreathed with evergreens, and 
on the corner a monument inscribed — 

" Webster," 

and bearing the closing words of his speech at the dedication of Bunker 
Hill monument. The front of 230 Washington street, occupied by Benjamin 
Jacobs and G. P. Brewer, looked well, and besides two busts of Webster, 
bore this inscription — 

"The Star of the jSTorth shall hold its unvarying station in the firmament, so long as human 
governments shall need the guiding light of fixed Constitutional laws." 

In the centre window of the third story the drapery was tastefully arranged 
around an anchor. The granite block on the corner of Winter and Wash- 
ington streets was well decorated by Dr. Winslow and C. P. Plympxon. 
There was a bust of Webster, and the inscription — 

" Know thou, Stranger, to the fame 
Of this much loved, much honored name, 
(For none that knew him, need be told,) 
A warmer heart Death ne'er made cold." 

On the Winter street side were the inscriptions — 

" He, only like himself, was second unto none." 
"A weeping country joins a widow's tear." 

Looking down Washington street, the Armory of the Boston Light 
Infantry, George W. Heard's store, Mrs. Parkiiurst's store, and the 
Franklin Printing House made a fine appearance. 

WINTERSTREET. 
Nos. 24 and 30 were trimmed with much taste. 



PARK STREET. 

The houses in Park street were all decorated alike, with a nniple row of 
festoons alone the balconies. 



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BEACON STREET. 

The old Hancock House was trimmed with festoons, rosettes and stream- 
ers, and had upon the portico a very handsome bust of Webster. The occu- 
pants of several other houses in Beacon street, and in Joy street, dressed 
their balconies. 

HANCOCK STREET. 

The block from Nos. G5 to 57 was well dressed. At No. 57 there was a 
bronze bust of Webster encircled by a wreath of flowers. Nos. 42, 40, 45, 
43, 41, 39, 37, 35, 30, and 28 were all trimmed in front. At E. Lombard's 
and G. W. Cartwright's, besides mourning drapery, there were busts of 
Webster. In front of Messrs. Keed & Hunt's was an alcove, containing a 
bust of Webster, with the inscription — - 

"0, heavy loss ! thy country ill could hear." 

Mr. L. Crosby, No. 21, made a fine display. Nos. 9 and 11 were tastily 
trimmed. Across the street was the inscription — 

"Marble columns may moulder into dust; time may erase all impress from the crumbliug 
stone; but his fame remains." 

IN CAMBRIDGE STREET 
there was a fine display. 

BOWDOIN SQUARE 

presented a fine appearance. The large block of buildings, opposite the 
Revere House, was hung with sti*eamers, tastily festooned, and united in the 
centre by a gilt spread eagle. The Revere House was hung in festoons. 
Over the ladies' entrance was an arch, inscribed — 

" I speak this day for the preservation of the Union. Ilcar me for my cause." 
In the centre of the arch was the inscription — 

" Vera pro gratis." 

A line of flags, draped, was stretched across the street. Over the main 
entrance, which was hung in mourning, was the inscription — 

"America has lost her greatest son." 

xind over the top of the portico, the inscription — 

" On Washington's principles, and under the guidance of his example, will we and onr 
children uphold the Constitution; to that standard we shall adhere, and uphold it through 
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come, in its protection; and wc will struggle on, in daylight and in darkness, aye, in the 
thickest darkness, with all the storms which it may hring with it till 
" Danger's troubled night is o'er, 
And the star of peace returns.' " 

The granite block on the corner of Bulfiiieh and Green streets was very 
appropriately trimmed. On the corner was a broken shaft, inscribed 

" Webster," 

and over it, the inscription — 

" The pillar of State is broken." 

On the Bulfinch street side was an alcove, containing a portrait of Web- 
ster. On the front was the inscription — 

" The greatest Orator, Statesman and Jurist." 
Underneath — 

"Istilllive." 

Across Court street was a line of ilags, inscribed — 

" Calhoun, Webster, Clay." 

That bearing Mr. Webster's name was inscribed — 

"Although his body returns to dust from whence it came, he will still live in the hearts 
of the people, through all generations." 

On the Court Street side was another alcove, with a bust of Webster, 
surmounted by an angel. Over it was the inscription — 
" The Defender of the Constitution." 

A shield was also displayed, tastily dressed. 

IN SUDBURY STREET 

the European House had an alcove, with a bust of Webster, and the 
inscription — 

" Webster's name is dear to us all." 

Clapp & Sons' building was well trimmed. There was amid the drapery 
a portrait of W^cbster, and beneath it these inscriptions — 

" Daniel Webster! 
What a piece of work is man! 
llow noble in reason. 
In apprehension how like a God." 

IN BLACKSTONE STREET 
there was a good display. 



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IN IIAXOYER STKEET, 

the stores of Geo. W. Chipman & Co., Albert B. Bell, Beers & Pond, 
Thos. H. Ridlon, Jude Snow & Hall, Pearl & Smith, Hall & Brother, 
W. E. Graves, Charles Bowers, Carter, Colcord & Preston, Calrow &, 
Co., the American House, (very fine) Barr & Hoyt, and some others, were 
strung with festoons of black and white. In front of Diamond Block was 
the inscription — 

"A composition and a form indeed, where ercry God did set his seal to give the world 

assurance of a man." 

The Head Quarters of the Boston Light Guard, at the head of Hanover 
street, were trimmed with flags, mottoes, etc. On a large flag across the 
street was the inscription — 

" Now to his ashes honor. 
Peace be with him, 
And choirs of angels 
Sing him to his rest." 

IN COURT SQUARE AND COURT STREET, 

we noticed the fine display in front ot Spaulding's fluid store. South- 
worth & Ha WES made a grand display, using a bust and a daguerreotype 
portrait of Webster. They exhibited the motto — 

"Live like Patriots! Live like Americans! United all, united now, and united forever." 

Messrs. Binney & Ellis appropriately trimmed their buildings, and had 
the motto — 

" Our nation's guide we mourn. As we value the blessings which a free Government be- 
stows, let us look to it that we follow his bright example. Let the Constitution, which he 
defended with such deep eartnestness and fidelity, be kept by us inviolate; carry out his 
high and noble principles, and our country's safe." 

Several stores in and about Court Square were trimmed with festoons. 
In front of Prentiss' music store was an alcove, covering a bust of Webster. 
In the front was a miniature helm, and the inscription — 

" Where is the hand to guide it"! " 

Underneath — 

"Nations will mourn Columbia's loss." 



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The stores below to Washington street were generally hung with festoons. 
At the junction of Court and Washington, was suspended the inscription 

" A nation mourns a dear-loved, cherished son, 
Whose name will live, although his work is done; 
Ilis body rests beneath the valley's sod — 
In form a man, in intellect, a God." 

In front of Fuio.vdes' Stoke was a fine display of bunting, with an cao;le 
in the midst, holding in his beak the motto — 

" ?ily country, my whole country." 

On the opposite corner, Mr. Cuaffin displayed as mottoes — 

" AVebstcr, thy spirit lives: thy name will never die." 
"Mourn you for him; let him be regarded 
As the most noble corse that ever herald 
Did follow to his grave." 
"His words of wisdom, with resistless power. 
Have graced our brightest, cheered our darkest hour." 

The end of the old State House, fronting on Washington street, was 
decorated by N. A. Thompsox and Charles A. Smith & Co. with three 
alcoves. In the middle one was a bust of AVebster ; beneath it the motto — 
" God will not cast away a perfect man." 

In the others were female figures leaning upon an urn, and weeping. Shields, 
wreaths of laurel, etc. 

WASIIIXGTOX STREET. 

On the corner of State street, F. Brown's Apothecary Shop was neatly 
trimmed, inside and outside. On the front was displayed the followins : 

'•■ Mourn no more, 'I still live.'" 

Fetridge & Co. produced a fine effect with a bust and picture of Webster, 
shrouded in crape. 

James French, Publisher, 78 Washington street, who made a most ex- 
cellent and patriotic display, had the following : 

" Liberty and Union." 

Over the door was a craped bust of Webster, surmounted by a shield. 
The whole front of the store was heavily draped. 

We are happy to bear testimony to the honorable, independent, and manly 
course pursued by Mr. French, in regard to the memory of the illustrious 
dead. Since the decease of Mr. Webster, he has been foremost in his pub 
lie and patriotic manifestations of sorrow at the sad event. 

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Among other very appropriate mottoes displayed by Mr. Frencli, we ob- 
served the following : 

" His ■works never die." 

" I shall stand by the Union, and all ■who stand hj it."' 

" I mean to stand upon the Constitution — I need no other platform." 

The stores of L. A. Hcxtington, No. 7G, J. P. Rice, No. 80, Brewer, 
Stevens & Gushing, and Adams & Co.'s Express Office were draped and 
decorated in the most appropriate style. 

J. J. Adams & Co., the Herald Office, Preble & Currier, J. Abokn, 
Palmer & Batchelders, J. B. Macomber & Co., the whole range of stores 
of Joy's Building, and the adjoining one to the corner of Court street, 
were draped very neatly. 

STATE STHEET. 

The Journal Building was handsomely trimmed with mourning dra- 
pery, craped flags, etc. In front was the beautifiU flag of the Journal, 
bearing the simple word — 

" Webster." 

Eastburn's Building was very tastily ornamented. The Thavellek 
Building presented a fine appearance. Ihere was an alcove containing a 
bust of Webster. Beneath it a shield, inscribed — 

" Libertas ct concordia." 

On the top was a large spread eagle, the whole surrounded by a profu- 
sion of drapery, flags, etc. On the flag of the ofiice was the inscription — 

"Webster, 
One of the few, the immortal names, 
That were not boi'n to die. "J 

At the Boston Courier Office, which was dressed with crape upon the 
occasion, was the following motto, taken from the speech of Hon. George 
Hillard at Faneuil Hall : 

" The shadow of him we have lost is more than the living forms of all those who are left." 

From the office of the Chronicle, across the street, a large American 
flag, heavily draped, was suspended; on the flag was the name of — 

" Daniel Webster." 

The front windows were festooned with black, fastened by rosettes of white, 
and in the window was a large and accurate portrait of the great states- 
man. The interior of the office was extensively draped with mourning. 
The Bee flag — the first fl.ag flung to the breeze in the country for Mr. 



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Webster — was decorated with suitable emblems. On the borders were wide 
crape, and ia the centre festoons on either side. It bore the followinc 
inscription : 

" Men die — priaeiples live." 

The Times Buildixg, extensively draped, with the inscription — 

" The great heart of the nation beats heavily at the portals of his grave." 

The Times flag, too, hanging across Washington street, was edged with 
black, and bore the following inscriptions : 

"Ilis death will eclipse the gaiety of nations." 

On the other side — 

" He was a man, take him for all in all, 
We shall not look upon his like again." 

The Post, Advertiseu, Atlas, Transcript, Commonwealth, and other 
papers, were handsomely draped in mourning. 

The Merchants' ExcnANGE News Room;, and Post Office, were beau- 
tifully decorated. 

The Insurance Offices and Banks were enshrouded in mourning, 

Nos. 41 to 67, 79 and 91, 114, 110, 118, the Bank of Commerce, 
and the Bank of Nortu America, were trimmed neatly. The two latter 
had alcoves with busts of Webster. At the head of Long Wharf was a 
flag inscribed — 

" AVe see him now." 

SOUTH MARKET STREET. 

There was a display from the windows of the Washinoton Light 
Guard, and many of the stores. John Gove & Co. trimmed their large 
building very heavily and tastily. From Faneuil Hall across vSouth 
^Market street, was a flag inscribed — 

" Thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands." 

This concluded the decorations on the route. Some of the public build- 
ings, and some private residences off the route were decorated. Among the 
latter was the residence of Mr. Chism. Before it was a canopy containing 
a bust of Webster. Beneath, the inscription — 

" The shadow of him we have lost is more than the living forms of all that arc left." 

Across the street, flags with the mottoes — 

" To the country he yet lives, and will live forever." 
"Though dead, ho yet speaketh." 



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" On tlic 24th of October, all that is mortal of Daniel Webster irill be no more."' 

"Daniel Webster is no more — a nation is bathed ia tears." 

" Wherever among men a heart shall be found that beats to the transports of patriotism 
and liberty, its aspirations shall be to claim kindred with his spirit."' 

"Daniel Webster, himself the noblest eulogy on a great man.'' 

The Mayor and Aldermen's Room and tlio Council Ciiameer were px-o- 
fusely hung with mourning emblems — a bust of Webster in folds, in the 
rear of the chair. 



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Next came the procession, which was formed iu School street at the 
City Hall, under the direction of 

GE:>J'. JOUN S. TYLER, Chief Marshal, 

assisted by the following gentlemen : 

Ht;u-sbul.s oi the ,lliK'ci-cnt .Qlbisions. 



Fredeuick W. Lixcoln, 
Lewis W. Tappan, 
John L. Dimmock, 



AIDS. 

Thomas Gray, 
William Dehox, 



Gkorge B. Upton, 
E.vocn Train, 
John C. Park. 



Josiah Dunham, Jr., 
Charles H. Appleton, 
Pliny E. Kingman, 



FIRST DIVISION, 

George F. Train, 
B. B. Williams, 
John M. Wright, 
Edward F. Hodge, 



J. R. ElGELOW, 

J. R. Bradford, 
J. P. Ober, Jr. 



Edward Crane, 
F. A. Fuller, 



SECOND DIVISION. 

George II. Kingseurv, 
J. A. Richards, 



Joseph M. Whitman, 
Arch's. Wilson. 



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Granville Mears, 
Joii.N" R. Lee, 
Charles F. Lougee, 



THIRD DIVISION. 
Edmund Boynton, 

J. 13. WlIEELOCK, 



Charles S. Cutter, 
DwiGiiT B. Hooper, 
P. L. Wixsnip. 



Ezra Forristall, 

D. F. McGlLVRAY, 

Gilbert Brownell, 
Adolpiius Davis, 
C. II. 11a WES, 

E. Webster Pike, 



FOURTH DIVISION. 

James Frexcu, 
Ezra Palmer, Jr., 
J. B. Richardson, 
Jonx Stetson, 

.7. FltEDEIlICK ^Iarsii, 



"William S. Tiiaciier, 
Henry A. Drake, 

E. I. BURBAXK, 

E. JBrooks Everett, 
^Y. W. Clapp, Jr., 

J. A. CUMMINGS. 



Vernon Brown, 
R. B. Hill, 



FIFTH DIVISION. 

G. A. BAT(_IiELDER, 



W. P. Baker, 
Charles W. Frost. 



James S. AViggin, 
J. R. Spauldlng, 



SIXTH DIVISION, 
J. Haskell Long, 



Samuel C. Cobb, 
c. j. b. moulton. 



James Dillon, 
Geokge T. Stearns, 



SEVENTH DIVISION. 
Enoch Train, Jr., 



Thomas W. Hooper, 
Heney' D. Child, 



E. G. Tucker, 



EIGHTH DIVISION, 
Theron E. Clark, 



Theodore S. Harris. 



James Dennie, Jr., 



NINTH DIVISION. 

William Whitney, 
Charles E. Wiggix, 



Henry G. Clark. 



George R. Sampsox, 



AT FANEUIL HALL. 

George Wheelwright, 
Joseph Meyer, 



John P. Putnam. 



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The procession moyed at half-past 11 o'clock, in the following order, 
through the streets previously announced. First came the 



ilitiirn €srart, 



under command of Brigadier General Samuel Andrews. This made, as 
it ever does, a brilliant and imposing display. It was led off by 

Tho National Lancers, Capt. J. C. Gipson, numbering eighty -five men, and 
the Boston Light Dragoons, Capt. I. H. Wright, numbering seventy-five 
men. 

These two companies made a magnificent appearance. They were accom- 
panied by the Suffolk Brass Band. 

PIFTII REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY, 

under the command of Col. Robert Cowdin, with the followino; field and 
staff ofiicers : — Lieut. Col. Henry W. Usheu, Lieut. F. A. Heath, 
Lieut. Adin Partridge. This regiment was accompanied by the Salem 
Brass Band, and made a splendid display with its train of field pieces and 
ammunition wagons, drawn by noble horses, and presenting all the accesso- 
ries of active service. It comprised the 

Washington Artillerij, Capt. ^A'illiam W. Bulloch, mustering fifty men, 
with field pieces. 

Boston Artillerij, Capt. Thomas H. Evans, with forty-five men, and field 
pieces. 

Cowdin Phalanx, Capt. Wardwell, numbering twenty men, with their 
field pieces. 

Roxbury Artillery, Capt. Moses II. Webber, mustering twenty-four men, 
with field pieces. 

Columbian Artillery, Lieut. Doiierty commanding. 

Besides the above, there v/ere connected with this regiment, the 

Gloucester Artillery, Capt. Cook, numbering fifty-one guns. 

Lijnn Artillery, Capt. Herbert, counting thirty-seven guns. 

Nest came the 

FIRST REGIMENT OF LIGHT INFANTRY, 

under the command of Col. Charles L. Holbrook, Liuet. Col. Thomas 
€hicivEring, Major C. F. Chickering, and Lieut. John R. Hall, accom- 



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panied by the Boston Brigade Band. The rcguucnt made a very fine 
appearance, and included the following corps : 

Pulaski Guards, Capt. A. J. AVrigiit, mustering thirty-five guns. 
Boston City Guard, Capt. J. H. Fuencu, numbering forty-five guns. 
Neio England Guards, Capt. J. L. PIensiiaw, counting thirty-six guns. 
Boston Light Guard, Capt. Geo. Clark, Jr., mustering forty guns. 
Independent Fusileers, Capt. Wm. Mitchell, numbering forty-eight guns. 
National Guard, Lieut. Walker commanding, counting thirty guns. 
Washington Light Guard, Capt. S. Flagg, displaying fifty-five muskets. 
Bosto7i Light Infantrij, Capt. 0. D. Ashley, mustering fifty guns. 
Mechanic Rifiemen, Capt. Samuel G. Adams, numbering twenty-seven 
muskets. 

These were followed by 

DETACHMENTS 4th AND 7tii REGIMENTS LIGHT INFANTRY, 

under command of Ccl. J. Durell Gueexe of the fourth Begiment, and 
comprising 

Cambridge Ci/ij Guard, (4th regiment,) Capt. Meaciiam, mustering forty 
guns. 

Richardson Light Guard, (7th regiment) Lieut. Dearcorn commandins;, 
with thirty-six guns. 

Stoneham Light Infantry, (7th regiment) Capt. L. Dike, numbering- 
forty-five guns. 

Winchester Guards, (7th regiment) Capt. F. 0. Prince, mustering thirty 
guns. 

In addition to these, the Boston Veteran Assoclatioi, Capt. Joseph Calfe, 
carrying twenty-six guns. 

Next came the 

Cibic i)is]jlci)i, 

■which was of a most sombre cast, but nevertheless of deep interest. 

THE FIRST DIVISION 

comprised a large number of carriages, in which were His Honor Mayor 
Seaver, the Chai)hiin of the Day, Rev. Mr. Lothrop, Hon. Bufus Choate, 
Hon. Bobert C. Winthrop, Hon. John H. Clifibrd, Hon. George Ashmuu 



44 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

and Hon. George Bliss of Springfield ; His Excellency Clor. Boutwell and 
Staff, with the Executive Council, escorted by the Independent Cadets, Col. 
T. C. Amory, mustering forty-one guns, and accompanied by the Weymouth 
Brass Band ; the President of the Senate, Speaker of the House, and 
Executive Council of New Hampshire ; Gen. Wilson, President of the 
Massachusetts Senate; Army and Navy Officers in uniform, with other 
State and City Officials, invited guests, and others. 

THE SECOND DIVISION, 
with Bond's Cornet Band, included 

the Webster State Executive Committee, the 3'lembers of the Neio Ha?np- 
shire Legislature, and others on foot. 

The presence of the New Hampshire Legislature, entire, and in one body, 
was a most affecting and pleasing tribute of respect to the memory of the 
departed statesman, with whom, although they proudly claimed kindred, 
they differed in political matters while he trod the arena of public life. 
But his genius and patriotism found in them warm admirers; and now that 
he has passed from earth, their hearts beat in unison with the common 
grief; and with the natural sympathy of true friendship and regard, they 
leave for a season the busy cares of state, to join in a last sad token of 
respect to departed worth. 

THE THIRD DIVISION, 

with the Newton Brass Band, embraced the City Governments of Charles- 
town, Springfield, and Lowell, which were very fully represented. 

f lie lourtlr giliision^ 

The So7ts of New Hampshire, at the head of this division, accompanied 
by Hall's Lowell Brass Band, appeared in large numbers and presented 
one of the most interesting features of the procession. They bore with 
them an elegant silk banner, designed and executed by Somerby, on which 
was a likeness of IMr. Webster, represented with the Goddess of Liberty on 
the left, holding above his head a civic wreath, and on the right a spread 
eagle, beneath which were the arms of New Hampshire. Above all the 
words — 

"I still live," 

and under the pictorial representation the words — 

"I speak to-day for the preservation of the Union." 



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-to 

On tlie reverse Avas inscribed — 

" Oue Country, ono Constitution, ono Destiny," 

and 

"Tlio ends I aim at shall be my God's, my Country's, and Truth's." 

The banner was tastefully trimmed with crape, and presented a beautiful 
appearance. There were also handsome and appropriate banners, neatly 
draped, bearing the names of the different counties in New Hampshire, 
which were represented in the procession — Sullivan, Rockingham, Carroll, 
Strafford, Belknap, Grafton, Merrimac, Coos, Hillsborough, and Cheshire. 
The Sons of New Hampshire swelled the ranks handsomely, and made a 
noble appearance, forming a worthy tribute of respect to the memory of him 
who once trod the same native hills, sported in the same genial valleys, and 
by the same pure, crystal mountain streamlets, attended the same village 
school, and who preeminently and nobly served the same common country. 

Following these came the Massachusetts Society of Cincinnati, in carriages, 
preceded by their flag, appropriately draped. 

The Cape Cod Association, accompanied by the Braintree Brass Band, 
turned out with full ranks, and made an excellent appearance. They bore 
with them the Society's banner, tastefully trimmed in black. 

The Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association was numerously 
represented, and carried in their ranks the banner of the Society, appropri- 
ately draped. 

The Mercantile Librarij Association, accompanied by the American Brass 
Band, appeared in full numbers, counting some hundred and fift}'. The}' 
bore with them a plain black velvet banner, with the initials of the Asso- 
ciation. The Mercantile Library Association formed a marked feature in 
this portion of the procession, comprising a fine body of young men, the 
future " merchant princes " of our beloved city, who heartily embraced 
this opportunity of testifying their respect for the character, the services, 
and the memory of the man whose voice was ever raised in defence of 
enlightened commerce, and who contributed so greatly to the prosperity 
and expansion of our g .Uant mercantile marine. 

THE FIFTH DIVISION 
was accompanied by the Boxbury Brass Band. 

The ScoVs Charitable Society appeared with full ranks, partially in 



46 ^^^ IIAMPSHIKE FESTIVAL. 

Higliland costume, and made an unique and pleasing display. They bore 
with, them their banner, handsomely trimmed in sable colors, and bearing 
the inscription — 

"Wide over the naked earth declare the worth we've lost." 

The Irish Protestant Society, with the Waltham Brass Band. They bore 
on their banner, which was tastefully arrayed in black, the words — 

" The Immortal Webster." 

On the reverse — 

" The Immortal Wellington." 

This Society made an excellent appearance. 

The French Mutual Relief Society made a good display. They bore with 
them their banner, appropriately clad in mourning, and bearing the words — 

" Daniel Webster — Thy name will ever be dear to our memory." 

The United Shamrock Society, with the East Boston Band, turned out 
well, and carried the flag of the Society, tastefully draped in black. 

THE SIXTH DIVISION 

was accompanied by the Boston Brass Band, and was led off by citizens of 
Charlestown, with a flag, bearing the name of the city, appropriately dressed 
in mourning. 

Then came the Engi?ieers of the Charlestown Fire Department, followed 
by Hancock Engine Co., No. 1, of Charlestown; Niagara, No. 3, of East 
Cambridge ; and Washington, No. 5, of Charlestown. The Eire Companies 
displayed full ranks, and made a very fine appearance. 

Next came a large delegation of " Bunker Hill Boys," accompanied by 
the Cambridge Brass Band. They carried with them a handsome banner, 
on which was inscribed — 

"We revere the name of Daniel Webster." 

The " Sons of Maine" were numerously represented, and evinced that 
the natives of the " Pine Tree State" sympathize deeply in the nation's loss. 
They bore with them a mourning banner, with their title inscribed thereon. 



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THE SEVENTH DIVISION 
■was headed by the JSIechanic Appre?itices' Library Association. This useful 
Association was fully represented by the worthy young mechanics of ]>oston, 
who made a fine appearance. They bore the Society's flag, appropriately 
trimmed with crape. 

Next came the " Boston Boys' Welstcr Chth,'" with the Charlcstown Brass 
Band. They numbered about one hundred and fifty, and were an intelligent 
looking group of lads, and a credit to our goodly city. They carried a beau- 
tiful flag, bearing the words — 

" I still live." 

Their presence in the melancholy cortege was an earnest that when, in the 
course of nature, they are called to take a share in the burdens of the State, 
the life, counsels and principles of Daniel Webster will be their guiding star. 

They were followed by a numerous delegation of '■^Jamaica Plain Bot/s,'' 
and bore with them a banner, on which was inscribed — 

" Vivit Vivetque." 

They made a most creditable appearance. 

Next came an array of young lads from Chelsea, carrying a very tasty 
flag, suitabl}' draped, bearing the words — 

" America's brightest star has set." 

These delegations of boys formed c^uite a feature in the cortege, and 
attracted general attention. 

THE EIGHTH DIVISION, 

and last, was composed of a cavalcade, about two hundred in number, with 
the Easton Brass Band. They were led off" by a delegation from Brighton, 
followed by another from Dorchester, each bearing a banner, properly trim- 
med, with the name of the town upon it. Somerville sent a full delegation. 
They carried a banner, with the inscription — 

"Somerville mourns a nation's loss." 

The cavalcade also embraced many citizens of Boston, and made an excel- 
lent appearance. 

The entire procession, including the military, numbered aboutcight thousand, 
and occupied about one hour in passing a given point. Its general appear- 



48 NEW IIAJirSIIIRE FESTIA'AL. 

ance was striking and impressive. Ttie universal display of the emblems of 
mourning upon the banners, and upon the persons who composed the cortege, 
combined with the plaintive, sweetly saddening strains of the numerous bands, 
contributed to produce a solemn impression upon all who witnessed the 
pageant. The assemblage of people at every available point for viewing it 
was very great, and added much to the effect of the genei-al display. 

THE PROCEEDINGS IX FAXEUIL IIALL. 

The head of the procession reached the Hall at a quarter to two o'clock, 
and the Mayor, and Orator, and Chaplaia entered the Hall at precisely 
two. The Germania Musical Society struck up, as they entered, the Dead 
March, from Handel, which they continued until the procession was all in. 
This occupied until twenty-five minutes past two. When full, the Hall pre- 
sented a most beautiful and imposing appearance. The galleries were 
crowded with ladies, except the front one, which was occupied by the Handel 
and Haydn Society. The entire interior of the Hall was covered with black 
cloth, most tastefully festooned. That, covering the ceiling overhead, was 
gathered in a circle at the centre-piece, which was marked by a large silver 
star. From this centre-piece, the drapery extended in heavy festoons to the 
corners of the galleries. Extending around the entire front of the galleries 
were two lines of festoons, fastened at each post with a tasty rosette of black. 
The posts were covered also with black cloth; that on the lower posts was 
fastened on each side with a rosette, and that on the upper posts was gathered 
up and dropped in a graceful fold. The windows were covered with heavy 
thicknesses of cloth, preventing the entrance of the least ray of light, and 
the panels between them were covered with the same material, hung in fes- 
toons. Around the front of the galleries, inscribed in letters of gold leaf, 
and reading from left to right, were the following inscriptions : 

" Our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country ! " 

" Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable." 
" TVc turn to his transcendent name for courage and consolation." 

Directly over the centre door, in front of the clock, and hiding it from 
view, was erected an alcove, in which was placed Ball's splendid bust of 
the departed statesman. Towering above the alcove was the large eagle 
which graces the Hall, and beneath, on the front, were the dying words of 

Webster — 

"I still live!" 

the power and truth of which is being felt deeper day by day, as the rapid 
wheels of time hurry us on from that eventful morn on which they were 



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uttered. The letters were large, and edged with gold leaf, and showed to 
fine advantage. 

The arrangement of the rostrum was excellent. A platform was built up 
even with the top of the stationary rostrum, extending the entire width of 
the Hall, and in front, so as to cover the reporters' places. The front of the 
platform was handsomely draped. On it were placed sofas for the accom- 
modation of the invited guests, furnishing seats for about two hundred. In 
the rear of the platform, wasHEALEv's beautiful picture of Webster, replying 
to Hayne, very deeply shrouded in mourning drapery, and so lighted as to 
give it the most splendid appearance we have ever seen it present. It 
seemed almost as if we could hear the words of eloquence flowing from his 
lips, as vv'e gazed upon his loved form. The arrangement of the drapery 
around the painting was very neat and appropriate. Beneath the paintine 
was the inscription in letters of silver — 

"We claim liim for America." 

Upon the platform occupied by the orator, and at his right hand, was 
placed upon a highly polished marble pedestal. King's beautiful and true 
bust of Webster. It is of the purest white marble, and in point of execu- 
tion is faultless. Its presence could but add beauty and grandeur to the 
scene. We understand that this splendid work of art is to remain in Faneuil 
Hall, it having been purchased by a number of gentlemen, and presented to 
the city for that purpose. 

On the right and left of Ilealey's painting, were seen the portraits of 
Washington and of Faneuil. In front of the gas lights were two large can- 
delabra, the light of whose wax tapers shed additional lustre upon the scene 
around. 

In each corner of the galleries was placed an American flag, surmounted 
by a gilt eagle, and heavily and tastily draped. The entire decorations 
were of the most chaste and appropriate character, and add another laurel 
to the well-earned reputation of Messrs. Russell, Hennessey & Piieli'S, by 
whom they were designed and put up. 

After the Hall was filled, Rev. S. K. Lothrop, the Chaplain of the day, 
ascended the rostrum, and delivered an impressive and eloquent prayer. 

TII,E EULOGY. 

At twenty minutes to three o'clock, Hon. Geo. S. Hillakd was introduced 
as the orator of the day, and delivered a most beautiful, eloquent and appro- 
priate eulogy on the life and character of the distinguished statesman. 

Upon its conclusion, the Chaplain of the day pronounced the benediction, 
and the company, in silence and solemnity, left the hall. 



KQ NEW HAMPSUIKB FESTIVAL. 



Cj3llatifln to l!]c |Iclu |jam^sMrt f tgislaturc. 

After the close of tlie services in Faneuil Hall, agreeably to the invitation 
extended to them, by the " Sons of New IIampsuire," the Legislature and 
officials of New Hampshire, with natives of that State in the city, repaired 
to the Revere House, where a superb collation had been prepared by Mr. 
Stevens for their refreshment. 

Here a half hour was spent in the renewal of friendships and a happy 
interchano-e of social feeling, and at a little before five o'clock Hon. Mr. 
Wilder invited the company to partake of the repast, spread for their grati- 
fication. Rev. Mr. Sanborn, Chaphxin to the New Hampshire Legislature, 
was invited to invoke the Divine blessing. After the repast, appropriate 
remarks were made by Mr. Wilder, Hon. Samuel Greele, of this city, and 
Hon. Ira Perley, of New Hampshire, the latter of whom related some 
interesting reminiscences of Mr, Webster, of which he had come in posses- 
sion. He had inquired of a person well qualified to impart correct informa- 
tion, how it was that Mr. Webster accomplished so much, and yet seemed to 
be a man of leisure. He was told that in the first place it was owing to the 
principle of order which existed in his mind, joined to great punctuality; 
next, to his habit of early rising, by which he was enabled to accomplish a 
day's work before most men would get to their labors. He had no royal 
road to learning, but went through the same tasks as other men. 

The time was then given up to social chat, which was engaged in by those 
who did not return to Concord that evening, of which there were quite a 
number. The rest left in the cars for home. The occasion was a most 
agreeable one, and in fact the whole proceedings of the day cannot have 
failed to produce a lasting and grateful recollection in the minds of all. 

A special meeting of the Executive Committee of the Sons of New 
Hampshire was holden on Thursday evening, January 6, 1853, at the 
Revere House, when the President read the official correspondence which 
ensued upon the occasion of the participation of the Association in the 
obsequies of Daniel Webster. Letters were read from Gov, Martin, with 
the resolutions of the State of New Hampshire, and from Hon, Samuel 
Appleton, 



LETTER FROM GOVEKXOR MARTIN. f- 1 

O i 



'^ttkx from t3oljmior ^Turtur. 

State op New IIami-siiire, > 
CoxcouD, Doc. 28, 18J2. s 

Sir : 

I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of a resolution adopted by 
the Legishiture of this State, in rehition to the obsequies of the lute Daniel 
Webster, celebrated at Boston on the oOth ultimo. 
With great respect, 

I am, dear Sir, 

Your friend and humble servant, 

NOAH MARTIN. 
Hon. M. P. "Wildrh, Vice President of the > 
Sons of New Hanipahire, Boston, Mass. 5 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

I'/i the yea?- of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fiftij-two. 

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convrned, That the 
Legislature of this State tender to the Civil Authorities of the Commonwealth of Massa- 
chusetts, and of the City of Boston, and to the "Sons of New Hampshire" resident in 
Boston, their grateful acknowledgments for the kind and cordial reception and attention 
they severally gave to the Executive and Legislative Departments, on the occasion of 
their attending the obsequies of the late Daniel Webster, at Boston, on the 30th ult. 

That his Excellency, the Governor, be requested to forward a copy of the foregoing reso- 
lution, under the seal of the State, to the Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts, to the Mayor of the City of Boston, and to the President of the " Sons of 
New Hampshire " resident in Boston. 

G. W. KITTREDGE, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

JOHN S. WELLS, 

President of the Senate. 



Approved December 17, 1852. 



NOAH MARTIN, 

Governor. 

State of New Hami-s-iiire, ) 
'ARY OP State's Office, j 



Secret 

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original now in 
this office. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and 
f^^^^' affixed the seal of the State, this 23d day of Decenil)er, 1852. 

>%SSSS5^ JOHN L. HADLEY, 

Secretary of State. 



52 NEW UAMPSUIRE FESTIVAL. 



gTr. eUba-'s Sadler. 

BosTox, Dece:.[ber 17, 1852. 
To the IIox. Samuel Appleton, Vice President of the " Sons of Ncic Havipsldre." 

My Dear Sir : 

When I last had the pleasure of a call at your house, a few days since, 
you signified your desire to contribute, in a pecuniary way, towards defray- 
ing the expenses of the " Sons of New Hampshire," incident on the occasion 
of the obsequies of our late lamented brother, Daniel Webster. 

In conformity with my promise to confer with you again on this subject, 
I have now most respectfully to state, that such amount as you may wish 
to dispense for this purpose will be gratefully received and faithfully 
appropriated. 

Permit me, also, in behalf of our New Plampshirc fraternity to say, that, 
while we deeply regret your inability to be present at our family gatherings, 
we shall never cease with brotherly love and affection, to cherish your name; 
for your enterprise has given impulse to our commerce ; your private 
charities have relieved individual and domestic suffering ; your liberal 
donations have supported numerous public objects ; and through a longer 
course of years than is generally allotted to man, you have contributed 
largely to increase the wealth and renown of this city, and of the States of 
our nativity and of our adoption. 

With a sincere desire for your health, happiness, and prolonged life, and 
that your last days may be your best days, I have the honor to subscribe 
myself, with sentiments of the highest regard. 

Your obedient servant, 

MARSHALL P. WILDER. 





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cannot wzt^c/ ^Jtoze/ aza?z/ ^o aa?/, 97?7^ Sedi wofne-j wuo 
aiwa?^-j a^/ena GA'eza (^LaTnyi&ntze' <f 40?td, tanomeT^ c?2/ 
aieer-^ nahve/ Q/Ya^e, 09^ mnezeve'T-^ Yneu -ma?/' ve ; ana 
^yia?^ aicu a/wayd vea/f^ f/z/ jfzau/, //laf £z^ie/zi- a?ia 
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na^ive'^ nzaniYe{ 

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Q'~tna nunzviz/ aezvazif, 




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The letter is written in a dear, plain hand, of which the signature is a /ac simile. 



5^ NEW UAMPSIIIRE FESTIVAL. 

Hon. George "W. Crockett offered the following preamble and resolution, 
which, were unanimously adopted : 

Whereas, The "Sons of New Hampshire" have received from the Hon. Samuel Applcton, 
one of their Vice Presidents, the liberal donation of Five Hundred Dollars, towards defray- 
ing the expenses incurred on the occasion of the obsequies of Daniel Webstkr, our lamented 
President, and especially by the reception and entertainment of the Executive and Legisla- 
tive Department of our native State, 

Therefore Resolved, That while we cordially accept this generous offering, we tender our 
grateful acknowledgements to our elder and honorable brother, Samuel Appleton, for this 
fresh token of his interest in the land of our birth, and in our efforts to sustain its honor and 
the reputation of its Sons. 

A resolution was adopted for the preservation of the archives of the Asso- 
ciation, and a Committee of seven was appointed, consisting of Messrs. M. 
P, Wilder, N. T. Dow, Frederick Emerson, Timothy Farrar, J. H. Wilkins, 
E. I. Eurbank, and Samuel G. Drake. 

The thanks of the Association were tendered to Pakan Stevens, of the 
Revere House, for the hospitality and politeness which he has exercised 
towards its members, and also to the Marshals who officiated on the day of 
the Webster funeral. 



PROCEEDINGS OF A. D. 1853. 



In September, of this year, meetings of the various Committees were held, 
and the Executive Committee were charged with the duty of selecting a day 
for holding the Second Festival. The second day of November having been 
determined upon, invitations were sent to distinguished Sons in New Hamp- 
shire and other States, to honor the occasion with their presence ; and other 
preliminary arrangements were vigorously commenced. A general meeting 
of the natives of New Hampshire was then called, for the purpose of electing 
a President and Vice Presidents, 

The meeting was held in the Tremont Temple, some eight hundred persons 
being present. Hon. Samuel GtREELe was called to the chair, and Hobt. 1. 
BuRBANK, Esq. was appointed Secretary. 

The meeting was addressed by President Sam'l Greclc ; jMessrs. Parker, 
C. L. Woodbury, Hutchins, Wiggin, Dr. J. V. C. Smith, Charles B. Hall, 
Kev. Mr. Worcester, Dr. Silas Durkee, N. C. Betton, and others. The 
greatest enthusiasm was manifested during the evening. 

A Committee, consisting of Chas. A. Wells, J. V. C. Smith, James W. 
Paige, Robert I. Burbank, John* P. Healy, James French, Daniel Taylor, 
T. W. Pierce, and Chas. B. Hall, was chosen to retire and nominate a 
President and Vice Presidents for the ensuing festival. 

The Committee reported the following names : — 



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NETV HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL, 



PRESIDENT. 

MARSHALL R WILDER 

VICE PRESIDENTS. 



PLETCIIER WEBSTER, 
JOEL PARKER, 
CHARLES II. PEASLEE, 
CHARLES A. AVELLS, 
SAMUEL W. WALDRON, 
SILAS DURKEE, 
NATHAN APPLETON, 
NINIAN C. BETTON, 
EBENEZER CHADWICK, 
JONAS CHICKERING, 
CHARLES G. GREENE, 
JAMES W. PAIGE, 
LEVI BARTLETT, 
ISAAC DANFORTH, 
GEORGE KENT, 



WILLIAM WASHBURN, 
TIxMOTHY UPHAM, 
ISAAC PARKER, 
TIMOTHY FARRAR, 
SAxMUEL BATCHELDER, 
WILLIAM D. TICKNOR, 
JOHN L. EMMONS, 
JOHN C. PROCTOR, 
WALTER BRYANT, 
FREDERICK EMERSON, 
SAMUEL GREELE, 
THOMAS SIMMONS, 
JONAS C. MARCH, ■ 
EZRA C. HUTCHINS, 
JOHN H. WILKINS. 



Messrs. Parker, Peaslee, Wells, Waldron and Durkee were chosen to fill 
the places of Messrs. Samuel Appleton, Joseph Bell, H. A. S. Dearborn, 
John McNeil and James C. Merrill, deceased, since the last celebration. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 



FLETCHER WEBSTER, 
CHARLES A. WELLS, 
DAJS'IEL D. BRODUEAD, 



JEROME V. C. SMITH, 
JOSEPH >L BELL, 
N. T. DOW, 
MARSHALL P. WILDER, 



JOEL PARKER, 
SAMUEL GREELE, 
JAMES W. PAIGE. 



COMMITTEE ON INVITATIONS. 



MARSHALL P. "^VILDER, 
CHARLES G. GREENE, 
J. T. C. SMITH, 
CHARLES A. WELLS, 
CHARLES B. GOODRICH, 



GEORGE W. GORDON, 
ISAAC 0. BARNES, 
JOHN P. HEALY, 
FLETCHER WEBSTER, 
DANIEL TAYLOR, 



THOMAS W. PIERCE, 
SAMUEL G. DRAKE, 
ROUERT I. BURBANK, 
D. II. MASON, 
A. B. MUNROE. 



COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. 



EBENEZER CHADWICK, 
GEORGE W. CROCKETT, 
JA3IE3 S. WIGGIN, 
DANIEL TAYLOR, 
SAMUEL BATCHELDER, 



JOHN S. JENNESS, 
DANIEL D. BRODHEAD, 
AMMI B. YOUNG, 
ISAAC PARKER, 
JA3IES W. PAIGE, 



WILLIAM F. PARROTT, 
PARAN STEVENS, 
ISAAC ADAMS, 
JOHN FOSTER, 
GEORGE W. ROBINSON. 



COMMITTEES. 



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COMMITTEE OX HALL AND DECORATIONS. 



JAMES W. PAIGE, 
J. V. C PMITir, 
NATHANIEL D. HUBBARD, 
■\VILLIAM WASHBURN, 
JAMES A. ABBOTT, 



ROBERT I. BURBANK, 
THOMAS \V. PIERCE, 
HENRY WILSON, 
ISAAC W. FRYE, 
PAUL ADAMS, 
JOHN L. EMMONS, 



J. E. HAZELTON, 
MARTIN P. KENNARD, 
CHARLES J. WILDER, 
J. S. CLEMENT, 
J. B. HANSON. 



COMMITTEE OX DINNER. 



DAVID BRYANT, 
DANIEL CUAMBERLIN, 
EZRA FORKISTALL, 
S. S. SEAVEY, 
JOHN IIUCKINS, 



W^r. G. HANAFORD, 
THOMAS W. ROBINSON, 
SELDON CROCKETT, 
SAMUEL GREELE, 
CHARLES WILKINS, 



SILAS DURKEE, 
JESSE MAYNARD, 

B. P. CHENEY, 

J. II. SILSBY, 

AVERY PLUM.MER. 



COMMITTEE ON MUSIC. 



HARVEY JEWELL, 
EZRA FORRISTALL, 
JONAS CHICKERING, 
H. L. HAZELTON, 



JABEZ B. UPHAM, 
TOLMAN WILLEY, 
CHARLES E. WIGGIN, 



JOSEPH GREELY, 
LAMBERT MAYNARD, 
D. F McGILVRAY, 
STEPHEN WEEKS. 



COMMITTEE ON TOASTS. 



SAMUEL GREELE, 
NATHAN T. DOW, 
CHARLES W. MARCH, 
FLETCHER AVEBSTEK, 



JOSEPH 51. BELL, 
CHARLES G. GREENE, 
JAMES A. ABBOTT, 
GEORGE KENT, 
STEPHEN G. NASH, 



J. T. FIELDS, 
HENRY WILSON, 
F. E. PARKER, 
LUTHER V. BELL. 



COMMITTEE ON PRINTING, DESIGNS, AND BANNERS. 



ISAAC W. FRYE, 
JAMES FRENCH, 
GEORGE W. BAZLN, 



KIMBALL GIBSON, 
A. G. HOYT, 
HUGH II. TUTTLE, 



JOHN C. DORE, 
JOHN TERRILL, 
ERASTUS RUGQ. 



COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS. 



SAMUEL GREELE, 
J. V. C. SMITH, 



MARSHALL P. WILDER, 



JAMES W. PAIGE, 
JOSEPH M. BELL. 



NEW HAMrSUIRE FESTIVAL. 






ar^Ijals. 



CHIEF MARSHAL. 

HORACE a. HUTCHINS. 

AIDS. 
JABEZ B. UPIIAM, BENJAMIN P. CIIEXEY. 

ASSISTANT MARSHALS. 

CHARLES EASTHAM, F. A. SIIAPLEY, 

D. M. PARKER, WILLIAM H. PAGE. 

CHIEF MARSHALS OF COUNTY DIVISIONS. 

THOMAS J. MARSH, Rockingham. 

ERASTUS RUGG, Cheshire. 

SAMUEL T. CROSBY, Sullivax. 

HORACE A. WHITE, Coos. 

THOMAS II. SMITH, Belknap. 

ALBERT LITTLE, Carroll. 

D. J. COBURN, Grafton. 

JOHN B. HANSON, Strafford. 

JOHN L. AVHIPPLE, Uillseoro'. 



c JestiliciL 



C^l 



The clay proved to be one of the most perfect and dcliglitful of the season. 
Not a cloud obscured the blue sky above, and the air had the balmy mild- 
ness of summer. A procession was formed, as on the former occasion, in 
front of the State House, which moved punctually at the moment previously 
announced in the order of the Chief Marshal. 

A more imposing body of men were never seen in the streets of the capital 
of New England. The procession was subdivided into counties, and rallied 
under a banner, that bore the name of each county. 

One of the papers of the day thus sums up the general appearance of the 
exhibition : — 

The procession formed at the State House, and began to move at half-past 
three o'clock, attended by two bands of music. The grand column con- 
tained from fifteen hundred to two thousand men, who made a most noble 
representation of the noblest production of the good old Granite State. 

The scene, as the vast body marched into the Hall, was quite imposing. 
The walls studded with home illustrations, familiar to the eye of every native, 
and draped with the flags of all nations — the long tables spread with rich 
viands — the patriotic music from the bands, and the presence of many dis- 
tinguished men from New Hampshire and her sister States — all told that 
the occasion was one of the highest interest and enjoyment to the united 
throng. 

The Festival was held in the hall over the Fitchburg Station House, 
where an excellent dinner was provided by Mr. J. B. Smith, the popular 
caterer, with the following 



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NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 



of i\Ut. 



MUTTON. 



TURKEY. 
GOOSE. 



DUCK. 
CHICKEX. 



BEEF. 
T£AL. 



bo:jed turkey, 
duck with olives, 
beef alamobb. 



SCOLLOPED OYSTERS. 



CEICKEX SALAD. 



MONGREL GOOSE. 
BED HEAD DUCK. 
BLACK DUCK.] 
CAXVAS BACK DUCK. 



APPLE PIE. 
MIXCE PIE. 
CUSTARD PIE. 

CHAiaOTTE RUSSE. 



APPLES. 
ORAKGES. 
ENGLISH WALNUTS. 



BRAZED TONGUE. 
POTTED PIGEON. 
SARDINES. 



BULLLA. BEEF. 
BULLIA TONGUE. 
SWEET BREAD. 



MUTTON CUTLETS. 



VEAL AND PEAS. 



O y .s t e r s . 

STEWED OYSTERS. 
RAW OYSTERS. 

Salads. 

LOBSTER SALAD. 
CHICKEN MAYOKAISE. 

FP.ENCH PEAS. 
PARTRIDGE. 
PLOVER. 
WOODCOCK. 

GLACE PUDDING. 
TIPSY CAKE. 
TRIFLE. 

WASHINGTON PIE. 
SOFT CUSTARDS. 

x> 31: s s u: Jtz y - 

FIG PASTE. 
PECAN NUTS. 
HAMBURG GRAPES. 



FRIED OYSTERS. 



LOBSTER MAYONAISE 



ENGLISH SNIPE. 
CELERY. 

CURRANT JELLY. 
CRANBERRY SAUCE. 



CREAM CAKE. 
CHEESE CAKE. 
SQUASH PIE. 
BLANC MANGE. 



RAISINS. 

ALMONDS. 

FILBERTS. 



FOREIGN GRAPES, WITH SUCH OTHER GREEN FRUIT AS THE MARKET AFFORDS. 



VANILLA. 

LEilON. 



X c e: csi.3i:^3x, 

PIxVE APPLE. 
STRAWBERRY. 
ROMAN PUNCH. 



ORANGE. 

SHERBET. 



CAKE OF V.1.RI0U5 KINDS. ] LEMONAD:;. ) 



TEA AND COFFEE. 



DECORATIONS. 



61 



The tables presented a magnificent appearance. Silver and other Avarcs 
dlled with all the luxuries that could tempt the most fastidious palate, 
glittered iu every direction. Scattered over all were hundreds of elco'ant 
bouquets, formed of newly plucked flowers, the exquisite odors of which were 
only surpassed by their gay and beautiful colors. One bouquet in front of 
the President's chair, set in a large silver vase, and containing hundreds of 
blossoms, struck our eye as particularly beautiful. 

The hall was lighted by gas, and elegant chandeliers, which presented a 
Snc effect. On all sides, the most significant, appropriate, and elaborate 
adornments were spread before the eye. The immense hall was one vast 
scene of beauty and taste. In whatever direction the visitor turned his 
gaze, it was certain to meet with some felicitous object or saying ; some 
beautiful color or appropriate motto ; some sketch or design adapted per- 
fectly to the occasion ; some harmonious blending of nature and art ; some 
delightful scene that could but stamp on the memory the mo.«t pleasurable 
emotions, and leave in the mind the sweetest recollections of the festive 
occasion. 

The ante-room was adorned with a rich display of flags, arranged in the 
most graceful manner, and variegated with wreaths of evergreen and flowers, 
boughs of pine and hemlock, and other decorations. 

Passing from the ante-room into the hall was a grand arch covered 
with various colored cloths, and festooned at its opening, from which point it 
gradually diminished to its terminus. It was surmounted at the entrance 
with a large golden eagle, bearing in its talons the national shield. Still 
over this was the motto, in large letters, bordered with evergreens, and ex- 
tending entirely across the ante-room, 

" Second Festival of the Soxs of New IlAiiPSHiRE, Xoyember 2d, 1853." 

Passing through the arch, the visitor entered a magnificent rotunda, 
terminating in a handsome dome, variegated with brilliant colors, and orna- 
mented on the sides with various designs, prominent among which were 
silvered figures of angels, messengers of peace, sounding, through golden 
trumpets, joyful tidings to the world. Over the passage from this to the 
main hall, was the motto — 

"AVelcome, Sons of New Hampshire." 

The view from the ante-room, on looking through the arch and rotunda 
into the hall, was surpassingly grand and beautiful. The first scene that 
showed itself to the eye, at the opposite end of the hall, was a splendid and 
costly painting of the Battle of Bunker Hill, presenting a thrilling view of 
that struggle in which the blood of our noble-hearted forefathers first began 



62 



NEW IIAMrSIIIRE FESTIVAL. 



"to flow in defence of American freedom. This was surmounted by an eagle 
in gold. In front was a large arch, decorated with evergreens, and hung 
with a drapery of flags, on which was the inscription, in large letters — 

"From Blinker Hill to Yorktown, there Tvas not a battle in -wbicli New Ilampsliiro blood 
iTas not shed." — " Daniel Webstcr^s Speech in this Hall, Nove7nbcr 1th, 1849." 

Midway, on the west side of the hall, was the grand platform for the Pres- 
ident and invited guests. A mammoth arch stretched over it from floor to 
floor, reaching to the ceiling, and extending along the hall for a distance of 
seventy feet. On this were placed thirty-one national shields, each inscribed 
with the name of a State in large golden letters, beginning with Maine on 
one end, and closing with California on the other. It was elegantly adorned 
with evergreens. At the top was a bust of "Weiistep. in fine gold, bearing 
beneath the word which had so often fallen from the lips of that mighty man 

with irresistible power, — 

" Union." 

On the right of the chair was a fine portrait of "Weestek, and on the left 
a portrait of President Pieiice. 

On the opposite side of the hall, facing the platform, was the gallery 
erected for the bands. Over this was suspended the beautiful banner made 
for, and carried by the " Sons of New Hampshire " in the funeral procession 
of Daniel Webster. On it glittered, in gilt letters, the immortal phrase, — 

" I still live." 

In front of the gallery were two shields, inscribed respectively with the 
names of " "SVeester " and " Pierce." Behind these, upon the walls, were 
two other shields, with the inscriptions — 

" United States." " Honor to the Brave." 

Over the entrance into the hall was a mammoth sketch of the " White 
House," and the following, in large letters, underneath : 

"Residence of the President of the United States, a Son of New Hampshire." 

On either side of the entrance were three beautiful white banners, fringed 
witb red, and bearing the inscriptions — 
On the right — 

1. "Sons of Portsmouth resident in Boston." 

2. "^The man returns who left these haunts a boy. 

The love of home the world cannot destroy." 

3. "Where'er we roam, whatever reaims we see, 

Our hearts untravcllcd fondly turn to thee." 



DECORATIOXrf. f>a 

On the left — 

1. "There is no place like home." 

2. " Tlierc is a spot of eartli supremely blest, 

A dearer, sweeter land than all the rest: 

And thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, 

That land thy country, and that spot thy home." 

3. "Should au!d acquaintance be forgot." 

The walls of the hall were gorgeous in the magnificent draper}'' of count- 
less flags of all nations, gladdening the eye, and foreshadowing the day when 
all uuinkind shall meet in one common brotherhood. The windows of the 
hall, capacious and stately, were curtained with tri-colors — white, pink, and 
blue. From the centre, gathered in a mammoth rosette of all hues, radiated 
numberless streamers, fluttering gaily, as if animated by the scene of beauty 
and taste, so prolific and suggestive in every direction. Every thing in the 
hall was tastefully adorned with evergreens. 

The decorations were designed and put up by Mr. William Beals of 
Boston, and showed exquisite skill and taste in their arrangement. 

Around the hall were sketches and mottoes illustrative of the progressive 
character of New Hampshire's sons. 

No. 1. Betjinninnr at the left of the President's chair, was a sketch of 
an unpretending farm-house at the base of a lofty mountain. Motto, 
Above — 



Beneath • 



" Eagles arc reared amon;' the mountains." 



"Now Hampshire lias a man for any place." 



2. Sketch of a country house, where President Pierce was born, and a 
youth leaving home with a pack on his back, A guide-board is seen near the 
house, one way directing to " Boston," and another to " Concord." Motto, 
Above — 

" By energy and health, 
Expect comfort and wealth." 

Beneath — 

" Energy in youth, and rest in age." 



Q^ NETT HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

No. 3. This sketch represents the youth in town, directing his steps 
towards a church. Motto, 
Above — 

" The house of prayer 
Kequires us there." 
Beneath — 

" Morals before money." 

No. 4. Sketch of a city block, occupied with stores and other places of 
business, with a variety of signs, to show the occupations of the possessors. 
Motto, 
Above — 

"Be careful, not too fast; 
Business first, pleasure last." 

No. 5. Passing by the beautiful painting of the Battle of Bunker Hill, 
the next sketch represents a sea view, with a wharf covered with bales and 
boxes of merchandise, etc., and a ship entering port under full sail. Motto, 
Above — 

" Credit is won 
"Without a dun." 

Beneath — 

"Unbind, and find." 

No. G. View of an Americfvn steamship leaving Boston Harbor, and men 
on the wharf waving their hats. 3Iotto, 
Above — 

"He is free to go 
AVho does not owe." 
Beneath — 

"All men born free and equal." 

No. 7. A mammoth workshop, with forges, etc., in full blast. The tall 
chimneys of other shops are visible in the background. Motto, 
Above — 

" Keep up the heat, 
You arc sure to beat." 

Beneath — 

" By blows it goes." 

No. 8. On the front of the music gallery is an old fashioned Court 
Room, with Judge, Jury, Sheriff, witnesses and lawyers, arranged in their 
usual order. Motto, 
Above — 

"He who feels the halter draw 
Has no opinion of the law." 

Beneath — 

"He is an eminent Jurist." 



DECORATIONS. nr 

Xo. 9. Sea vievr, with a rough ledge of rocks, surmounted by a light- 
house ; a number of ships passing. Motto, 

Above — 

" In calms as well as gales, 
Keep an cj-e to your sails." 

Beneath — 

"Gales fill the sails." 

Xo. 10. Eepresents a sick room, with the " Xew Hampshire boy" at 
the side of the bed, as a physician. Motto, 
Above — 

"Improvo while you can; 
Knowledge makes the man." 

Beneath — 

" Remember the afflicted." 
No. 11. Passing by the gallery, the next scene is the interior of a meet- 
ing house, with the clergyman addressing his audience in the style of "olden 
times." Motto, 
Above — 

"Vfc should learn in early youth 
The worth of virtue aud truth." 

Beneath — 

" Revere what you hear." 

No. 12. Is an editor's sanctum. Files of newspapers hanging on the 
walls, and scattered over the floor, among which are to be seen. '^Boston 
Courier" " Morning Post" " Boston Atlas" " HilVs New Hampshire 
Patriot" " Globe" " Farmer's Cabinet" and " Neio Hampshire Sentinel.'^ 
Editor at his desk reading. Motto, 
Above — 

" Politics and papers 
Cut very strange capers." 

Beneath — 

"lie is an influential editor," 

No. 13. A large and elegant private mansion, with " Beacon street" on 
one corner oF it, and a row of trees extending to some distance. Motto, 
Above — 

" Vv'hat is there in fame, 
Without a good name T " 

Beneath — 

" A good name is an estate." 

No. 14. Extensive cotton factories and waterfall, bridge, etc. Motto, 
Above — 

""While we arc whist 
^ The spindles twist." 

Beneath — 

" Spin and v.'iu." 
6* 



65 NEW UAMPSUIRE FESTIVAL. 

No. 15. A train of cars passing over the track, througli a beautiful 
valley. Motto, 
Above — 

'■' By immoderate thirst, 
The boiler may burst." 

Eeneatb — 

" Can't we go fasterl " 

No. 16. View of the Capitol at Washington. Motto, 
Above — 

"Those can't sec far ahead. 
"Who sleep too long in bed." 

Beneath — 

"Aspire to rise higher." 

No. 17. View of the President's mansion at "Washington, with crowds 
in the foreground waving their hats. Motto, 
Above — 

" The only people free, we say, 
Are those of North America." 

Beneath — 

"The people rule." 

No. 18. The Hall of the State Department. Motto, 
Above — 

" Oaks from acorns, rivers from springs, 
Eagles at first had featherless wings." 

Beneath — 

" Thus says the Constitution." 

No. 19. A rural scene, with country residence, and a farmer at his 
plough. Motto, 
Above — 

" Whoever by the plough would thrive, 
Himself must either hold or drive." 

Beneath — 

"The noblest employment of all." 

No. 20. Sketch of a river, upon which a steamer and sail-boats are to 
be seen. The banks of the stream are partially covered with forests, and 
on either side high rocks project over the water; on one of which stands a 
"native," representing the aspiring tendencies of the Sous of New Hamp- 
shire. Motto, 
Above — 

" All should aspire 
To rise higher." 

Beneath — 

"Be wise and rise." 



PROCESSION. 



67 



The procession marched from the State House through Park, Trcmont, 
Court and State streets, Merchants' Row, North, Ulackstone and Haverhill 
streets, to the Fitchburg depot, in the following order : 

FIRST DIVISION. 

MUSIC — BOND'S CORNET BAND. 

THE PRESIDENT, CUAPLAINS, AND VICE PRESIDENTS, 

MAYOR OF BOSTON, AND OTHER INVITED GUESTS, 

AND COMMITTEES OF ARRANGEMENTS. 

Then followed the natives of the different counties. 

SECOND DIVISION. 

CHESHIRE COUNTY. 

THIRD DIVISION. 

SULLIVAN COUNTY. 

FOURTH DIVISION. 

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY. 

FIFTH DIVISION. 

COOS COUNTY. 

SIXTH DIVISION. 

GRAFTON COUNTY. 

SEVENTH DIVISION. 

STRAFFORD COUNTY;. 

EIGHTH DIVISION. 

BRIGADE BAND OF MUSI C — MERRIM AC COUNTY. 

NINTH DIVISION. 

BELKNAP COUNTY. 

TENTH DIVISION. 

CARROLL COUNTY. 

ELEVENTH DIVISION. 

ROCKINGHAM COUNTY. 



gg NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

The procession began to enter the hall about four o'clock, p. m. At half 
past four the company vrere all seated, and the President had taken the 
chair. On the platform with him we noticed the following, among a great 
number of invited guests: Rev. Baron Stow, D. J).; Rev. Ephraim Pea- 
body, D. D. ; Hon. Charles H. Peaslee, Collector for the Port of Boston 
and Charlestown ; Hon. Benjamin Seaver, Mayor of the City of Boston ; 
Hon. Matthew Harvey, Ex-Governor of New Hampshire; Hon. Edward 
Kent, Es-Governor of Maine; Hon. John S. Wells, Ex-President of New 
Hampshire Senate; Hon. George W. Kittredge, Ex-Speaker of N. H. 
Legislature; Professor E. D. Sanborn, S. G. Brown, and Dixi Crosby, of 
Dartmouth College ; Hon. Zaccheus Chandler, Mayor of Detroit ; Hon. 
John Prentiss, of Keene, N. H. ; Hon. Richard Boylston, of Amherst, 
N. H. ; Hon. John Aiken, of Andover ; Hon. Lorenzo Sabine, of Framing- 
ham ; Hon, Horton D. Walker, Mayor of Portsmouth, N. H. Among the 
Clergy we saw Rev. Asa Eaton, D. D. ; Rev. Benjamin Iluntoon, of Mar- 
blehead ; Rev. Samuel K. Lothrop, D. D. ; Rev. S. Barrett, D. D. ; Rev. 
A. A. Miner, of Boston; Rev. J. S. Bod well, of Framingham ; Rev. 
Samuel Clark, of Uxbridge ; Rev. Daniel Furber, of Newton, and others. 

At the tables in front of the guests, were seated the Vice Presidents and 
Committees of Arrangements. 

At twenty minutes before five o'clock, p. m., when the company were 
seated at the tables, the President, Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, rose and 
said: 

Gentlemen, it is suitable, on all occasions, to seek the Divine blessing, 
and especially so when large congregations of people are assembled. Will 
you join with the Rev. Dr. Baron Stow in invoking the benediction of 
Heaven on us and on our feast. 

The grace was in the following language : 

" Almighty God, our Preserver and Benefactor, we acknowledge Thy 
righteous Providence in the removal of some of our brothers, who were with 
us when we met. at this festive board. While we would cherish their memo- 
ries as fragrant, we would imitate all in them that was excellent. Accept, 
Father, our filial gratitude that we still live, and are permitted to enjoy 
this reunion. May fraternal feeling, regulated by reason, pervade this 
liberal gathering, and the ties of a generous brotherhood be freshly and 
strongly cemented. Bless to us the fruits of the earth, now provided for 
our use, and prepare us for the higher entertainment that is to succeed ; and 



MR. WILDER'S SPEECH. 



C9 



may the whole occasion bo one of rational enjoyment, pure in all its tenden- 
cies, beneficial in all its results. Admonished as we are by the jxist, may 
we not forget the brevity of life, or our accountability to Thee. ' Lead us 
not into temptation ; but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, and 
the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.' " 

When the repast was finished, at half-past sis o'clock, Mr. "Wilder said, — 

" Gentlemen, the Divine Commandment requires that when we have 
eaten, and are full, we should bless the Lord our God. I will call upon our 
Reverend Brother, Mr. Peabody, to express our thanks." 

Rev. Ei'iiRAiM Peabody, D. D., then returned thanks as follows : 

" Almighty God, our Creator and our Father, we would lift up our 
hearts unto Thee in thankfulness. We thank Thee, God, for the common- 
wealth of our birth ; for its many privileges which we have been permitted 
so richly to enjoy ; for its early homes ; for the nurture of its schools ; for 
the teachings of its churches ; for the protection of its laws. We thank 
Thee, God, that so many of us, the children of one mother, are permitted 
to meet hero together. And while we remember the fathers, and while we 
call to mind the wise and great and good men who were here with us, but 
are here no longer, we will yet thank Thee, God, that they have left their 
examples behind to inspire and guide those who come after them in the ways 
of usefulness, and patriotism, and virtue. God, look down upon us, we 
beseech Thee, with Thy fovor. Make us grateful unto Thee for Thine infi- 
nite kindness, and lead us ever in Thy way. We ask it through Christ 
our Lord. 

Mr. Wilder then rose, in the midst of great cheering, and made the fol- 
lowing speech : 



p0n. Prsliall |l MiM's f pccdj. 



Men of New Hampshire ! Fathers, brethren, sons ! Members of the 
same great family ! children of the same sweet home ! 

Honored guests ! In anticipation of your presence, we, your brethren, 
resident in this city and its suburbs, have spread these tables, oj-cncd these 
doors, and, with warm hearts and outstretched arms, we bid you come in. 
Welco)7ie to this our festive board ! Welcome to the joys and pleasures of 
this occasion ! [Applause.] 



70 NEW HAMPSEI RE FESTIVAL. 

Welcome, one and all ! welcome ! "Whether from the pulpit or the bar, 
from the halls of legislation, of science, or of literature ; -whether from the 
sunny heights of prosperity, or the dark vale of adversity ; from whatever 
condition in society ; from whatever spot of the wide, wide world you come, 
we extend to you the right hand of fellowship, with the cordial grasp of 
fraternal affection, [Applause.] 

In commemoration of the excellent example introduced by our illustrious 
leader at our first festival, of shaking hands, I will present my hands to the 
brethren on my right and left, and desire you to do the same. [Here the 
President shook hands with those seated near him.] Thus let us complete 
the circle, feel the pulsations of brotherly love, and accelerate its vital cur- 
rent in all our hearts ; and let music, with her soul-stirring strains, respond 
to our greetings, that we may have one round of joyful salutation. [Plere 
there was a universal shaking of hands throughout the hall, amidst the 
most enthusiastic cheers and shouts, while a loud peal came from the band.] 

Brethren, I congratulate you upon the favorable circumstances under 
which we meet ; upon the peace which prevails in all our borders, while 
there are wars and rumors of wars in other lands ; upon the general health 
in the States of our nativity and adoption, while pestilence has slain her 
thousands in other parts of our beloved country ; upon the unusual pros- 
perity which rewards labor in all the departments of active industry ; upon 
the growth of our great republic in extent of territory, population, wealth 
and power; in intelligence, virtue, and religion. [Cheers.] 

Among the causes which have produced these cheering results, we recog- 
nize the enterprise and perseverance of the Sons of New Hampshire, who, 
with true Yankee spirit, and the zeal which characterized their worthy sires, 
have stationed themselves at almost every point of influence in the world. 
[Applause.] 

It is the privilege of children to cherish a fond and grateful remem- 
brance of parents and home ; yea, it is their sacred duty ; the command- 
ment, with the promise that their days may be long upon the earth. 

On this occasion, therefore, we may well render a just tribute of regard to 
the State of our birth ; and, surely, no spot on earth is more worthy of such 
a tribute! A land originally settled by men whose love of liberty spurned 
the oppressions of the old world, and sought an asylum in the new ; a land 
which furnished its full quota of troops in the Indian and Revolutionary 
war — troops that poured life's blood as water upon almost every battle- 
field of our country; the land whose delegates signed their names next after 
John Hancock to that memorable document, the Declaration of Independ- 
ence, and there upon that star-spangled roll of fame they will stand forever. 



MR. TTILDER'S SPEECH. 



71 



[Applause.] But I need not here repeat tlie incidents of her early hi.^torv; 
they are as familiar as household words. 



'Tour lips shall tell them to your sons, 
And they again to theirs; 
That generations yet unborn 

May teach them to their heirs." 



[Applause.] 



^'e rejoice in the original rank of New Hampshire in the great American 
brotherhood, and in the evidence that her sons, scattered through the world, 
still swell the tide of her renown. 

We, of Massachusetts, honor the State of our adoption, and will yield to 
none in our efforts and desires for her welfare and fame ; but seeing that 
others glory in their nativity, we will glory also, and on this occasion may 
be allowed to record the singular fact, that of all the candidates for the chief 
magistracy of this Republic, presented to the respective National Conven- 
tions previous to the late political campaign, a large majority were sons of 
New Hampshire. There was the great expounder of constitutional authority 
and national rights, too much the preperty of the entire world to be appro- 
priated by any one nation under heaven, [sensation] ; there was Lewis Cass, 
[cheers,] the great champion of democracy, virtue, and religion ; there were 
Salmon P. Cuase and Daniel S. Dickinsom, [applause,] of enviable and 
untarnished fame ; and there, too, was John P. Hale, [applause,] the very 
embodiment and incarnation of human freedom ; and last in the enumera- 
tion, but first in the Presidential course, there was New Hampshire's favored 
son, Franklin Pierce, [loud applause,] the man of the people's choice, the 
man who now occupies the highest station in the gift of the world. [Re- 
newed and long continued cheering.] 

But while we have these subjects of congratulation and rejoicing, we Lave 
others which call for condolence, and which move the deepest fountains of 
sorrow. Four years have elapsed since our last family gathering in this 
place. But while a merciful Providence has spared the lives of our large 
board of managers, — one only of the forty having fallen, our beloved and 
worthy brother, William H. Prentice, — still we have to mourn the loss of 
a number of valiant standard bearers, who participated in the services of 
our last Festival. My name stands in the proceedings of that occasion in 
the midst of death, to remind me how soon the sod of the valley may be my 
covering. 

He who then occupied this chair is no more ; [sensation] and the four 
Vice Presidents whose names succeeded mine jon your roll, have also fallen 
by my side. Sa:\iuel Api'Leton, whose generous heart and princely fortune 
relieved suffering and want wherever found, and whose large donations to 



>-<? NETT HAMPSIIIRE FESTIVAL. 

various objects of philanthropy and benevolence will endure while charity 
is rewarded with gratitude. Joseph Bell, the distinguished counsellor and 
jurist, the accomplished statesman, whose valuable services at the bar and 
in the forum will long be held in grateail remembrance. Henry Alexander 
Scammel Dearborn, a worthy descendant of the two New Hampshire patriots 
whose name he bore, a finished scholar, a lover of the fine arts, and a gen- 
tleman of remarkable taste, whose memory will be cherished for the pro- 
jection and adornment of 3Iount Auburn and Forest Hills Cemeteries, and 
for other valuable public services. John McNeill, whose military valor and 
renown will fill a large place in the history of his country and in the hearts 
of his countrymen. These endeared names death has starred on your roll of 
ofiicers. Nor is this all. The great destroyer has cut down within a few 
weeks another of your Vice Presidents, — James C. Merrill, — highly 
esteemed by his fellow citizens for his long and valuable services on the 
bench. 

Would we could stop here ! Still others must be added. But not to 
enlarf^e in respect to those in our native State, and more remotely connected 
with our first festival who have also gone to their rest, we have to mourn 
the loss of two distinguished sons then present, who will never be forgotten ! 
Levi Woodbiry, who entered early into public life, and whoso eminent ser- 
vices in both New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and in the councils and 
judiciary of the nation, have won for him imperishable fame. And last, not 
least, Daniel Webster, whose ofiicial relation to this body demands a grate- 
ful tribute to his memory. His surpassing eloquence on that memorable 
nio-ht will ever remain among the choicest treasures of our memories. AVho 
of us can ever forget the manner in which he stood up on this spot, the 
great champion of universal freedom and national rights, and, before the 
civilized world, exhorted the Russian autocrat to respect the law of nations : 
and warning him if he did not, in the following emphatic and terrible lan- 
fruao-e: — " There is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic 
power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and 
the earthquake has its power; but there is something among men more 
capable of shaking despotic thrones than lightning, whirlwind, or earth- 
quake, — that is the excited and aroused indignation of the whole civilized 
world ! " [Prolonged cheering.] 

The voice that pronounced this anathema is silent ; but the sentiments 
which it then uttered are now shaking to their very foundations the thrones 
of Europe. Who of us can forget his majestic form and mountain brow, as 
he then stood before us, the very impersonation of greatness and power — 

"Like some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, 
Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm." 

[Applause.] 



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And, in view of the closing hour of his life, fringed with the rosy tints of a 
faii-cr to-morrow; in view of his serenity of mind, his Christian resignation 
and his hope of a glorious immortality, may we not, with little modification, 
add the other lines of this beautiful stanza — 

" Thougli round bis breast tbe rolling clouds were spread, 
Eternal sunsbino settled on bis head." 

[Cheers.] 

These, all these, have passed from the scenes of earth. But it is not for 
me to pronounce their eulogies. Their important public services are their 
best monuments ; their untarnished fame their best epitaphs, — 

" Tbo' dead, they speak in reason's car, 
And in example live." 

Aye, brothers, in that serene upper sky, to which we trust they have 
ascended, where we hope to meet them at last, and, beneath the rainbow 
about the throne, to celebrate a more enduring and glorious festival. 

The same inscrutable Providence which has removed them, has spared us 
to labor on amidst the cares, joys, and pleasures of life. We meet here to- 
night to revive past friendships, to form new acquaintances, to strengthen 
the bonds of our common brotherhood, and to honor our native State. 

What a tide of hallowed associations cluster around the homes of our 
childhood ! — the hand which rocked our cradle — the parents who nurtured 
us — the rocks and hills — the brooks and vales — the district school- 
house — the village church — the family mansion, and 

" The old elm, that bath been our joy 
Prom very childhood up." 

The emotions which these remembrances awaken flow from the purest 
fountains of the human soul. Cease to remember the land of our birth ! 
Not while the granite of her heaven-piercing hills shall endure — not while 
gratitude shall be the grateful language of the heart. 

" Land of our fathers, wbereso'er we roam, 
Land of our birth, to us thou still art home." 

[Great cheering.] 

When the applause following Mr. Wilder's speech had subsided, he rose 
and said : The first regular sentiment which I shall propose, is one to 
which I am confident every son of New Hampshire will heartily respond. 
I give you : 

1, The President of the United States. 

[Tremendous cheering.] 
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Mr. WiiiDER then said : 

In behalf of the Committee of Arrangements, I have to state that wc 
hoped, until a late moment, to be honored with the company of our illus- 
trious brother, the President of the United States; but I have just received 
a telegraphic despatch, containing a sentiment, and informing us that he 
will not be here. I submit the sentiment. It is addressed to the Sons of 
New Hampshire : 

Washington, Notemeer 2. 
To the Sons of New Hamjisldre, Boston: 

The most precious treasures of memory will be brouglit out among you to-niglit, and my 
heart's Trarmest sympathies -will mingle with yours. lie vrho, amidst all changes of fortune 
and locality, loves his native town, his native county, and his native state, can hardly fail 
to love his whole country, and to revere and uphold, with steady devotion, this glorious 
Union. 

FKANK PIERCE. 

[The reading of this was followed by the most enthusiastic applause.] 

The Pkesident. In the absence of the President of the United States, 
I call upon a brother of ours connected with one of the departments of 
Grovernment, Hon. Charles H. Peaslee, Collector of the Customs for this 
Port. 

f peed] jof gon. (Lliarles |j. ^eitslce. 

Mr. President: 

I tender you my grateful acknowledgments for the complimentary allu- 
sion which you have made to me, and also to the company for the manner 
in which that allusion was received. But, sir, it seems like presumption in 
me even to yield to your earnest and unexpected call to occupy the time 
which was intended and hoped to be occupied by so brilliant, and eloquent, 
and distinguished a man. [Loud cheers.] 

I have been reminded, sir, by the toast offered by you, as well as by the 
President's answer, that upon a son of New Hampshire has been conferred 
the highest of all human honors. Sir, the manner in which that toast, as 
well as the response from our distinguished brother, was received, shows 
the fact to be (as indeed it may well be,) a source of just pride and grati- 
fication to us all ; and that it is a fact which vibrates through the hearts 
of all true sons of New Hampshire, whether at home or abroad. [Ap- 
plause.] 

Allusions have already been made to him by you, as well as to other 



MR. I'EASLEE'S SPEECH. '~ ~ 

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distinguishecT sons of New Ilamp.sliire, -wlio too, like him, have illustrated 
and adorned the Americau character and the American name, who too, 
with him, have made their impress upon their country's history and ffovern 
ment. The names, sir, you have mentioned, — names well known wherever 
civil government has an advocate, — entitle New Hampshire to take her stand 
high up in the confederacy of states, if it be any merit for a little state to 
have sent forth, within the last half century, some of the greatest minds 
that have appeared upon the American continent. [Loud applause.] 

Of the President's wisdom, integrity, brilliancy, genius, patriotism and 
learning, I need not speak, as his history and character are familiar to you 
all. His career thus far has, in fact, been passed upon by the American 
people; and to this his most ardent admirers could wish to add nothing. 
As to the great future which is before hini, the Sons of New Hampshire 
trust their distinguished brother, in joyful confidence, to the verdict of the 
grand jury of American freemen, who will judge of his acts by their merits, 
honestly, impartially and intelligently. It is to that verdict they trust to 
secure his name as it has heretofore always secured it — as a name " with- 
out fear and without reproach." 

Sir, our country has not been unmindful of New Hampshire in the days 
of her prosperity, and New Hampshire, as you have shown, was not un- 
mindful of her in the hour of her adversity. And we should be ungrateful 
sons if, amid the festivities of this day, we omitted a just mention of those 
who, in the hour of darkness and trial, manfully upheld the honor of our 
State, and enabled it to accomplish its full share in the achievement of that 
independence which forms the basis of our national prosperity. 

There is no danger that laurels won on the battle-field will grow too dim 
to be recognized oven in the lapse of many generations. But the power 
which has directed councils, levied and sent into the field fresh armies to 
supply the waste of war and disease, and industriously provided the im- 
mense material of war, without which the mightiest hosts and the bravest 
generals are powerless, — there is danger that the mind which conceives and 
the hand which executes all this, may be passed by, on an occasion like the 
present, when they should be held in the warmest remembrance. 

Grecian historians have remembered with gratitude the valor of Aristi- 
des and Themistocles, but have omitted to record the names of those whose 
counsels and efibrts marshalled and sent into the field the hosts of Marathon. 
Song and story have conferred immortality upon the deeds of Stark : — the 
fame of Poor, and ^McClary, and Heed, has ever been held sacred by the fire- 
sides of those who fought and suffered with them : while at the last festi- 
val of the Sons of New Hampshire, lips now silent in the tomb, whose very 
utterance of praise was a patent of nobility, paid just and eloquent tribute 



7(3 NEW nAMPSIIIRE FESTIVAL. 

to the memory of Scammel. There were others who stood side by side with 
them, not indeed on the fiekl of battle, but, sii', whose courage and stead- 
fastness were not less important and valuable, whom it well becomes us to 
pass in review. 

There was the gifted and patriotic Matthew Thornton, whose name, with 
that of Josiah Bartlett, is inscribed on an instrument more enduring than 
Corinthian brass. There was the pains-taking and laborious Nathaniel 
Folsom ; — every page of our revolutionary archives bears witness to his 
zeal and earnestness in our country's struggle ; there was Whipple, too, and 
Wiseman Clagget, and the skillful physician, and accomplished scholar, and 
patriotic citizen, Dr. Hall Jackson, and a multitude of men besides, whose 
names, now lost to history, would have been well worth preserving, who 
formed the life and soul of the principle of liberty, and who acted as chair- 
men of the various committees of public safety. 

But, sir, towering in influence and political position above all the rest, 
there was one individual whose hitherto almost unacknowledged efforts con- 
tributed so essentially to the glor}^ of New Hampshire during the revolu- 
tionary struggle, that I am sure this occasion will be made more honorable 
by bringing his name to fresh recollection. Sir, when the news of the bat- 
tle of Lexington flew like wildfire along our Atlantic borders, there was no 
man who responded to the call of imperilled liberty with more alacrity than 
Meshech Weare. 

He was a man of education when such accomplishments were rare, and 
had already become highly distinguished as a public man. Pie was a Jus- 
tice of the Superior Court, and was Speaker of the Provincial House of 
Representatives; and when a temporary form of government was established 
in New Hampshire, subsequently to the Declaration of Independence, he 
was elected first President of the State ; and, says a contemporary — " So 
great was the confidence reposed in him by the people, that upon him were 
conferred the three highest offices at the same time — legislative, executive 
and judicial — to which he was annually elected during the whole war." 
Says the same historian — " He was a man not of original and inventive 
genius, but had extensive knowledge, a clear perception, an accurate judg- 
ment, a calm temper and a modest deportment ; a man, too, of benevolence 
and purity of heart ; a man of remarkable diligence and prudence in the 
discharge of all public duties." These trusts and responsibilities he sus- 
tained during the whole revolutionary war. He was the centre around 
whom all that was patriotic in the State was accustomed to assemble. He 
was a man of strong fliith, and from the first to the last he had full confi- 
dence in the cause of American liberty as the cause of heaven, and never 
for a moment doubted its final glorious result. [Loud applause.] He wit- 



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nessed the esrablishnient of peace upon the most honorable terms, and -when 
the curtain fell at the conclusion of the great drama in which he had acted 
so conspicuous a part, he approached the grave 

" Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch 
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." 

Sir, if there ^yere any two men without the pale of the Continental Con- 
gress upon whom "Washington looked that he could rely with unswerving 
confidence for support during the darkest hours of the revolutionary strug- 
gle, those men were Jonathan Trumbull of Connecticut, and Meshech 
Weare of New Hampshire. [Cheers.] 

From the camp at Morristown, when everything was apparently lost, save 
American honor, the letters of "Washington to Wcare were full of the most 
touching evidence that upon the President of the Province of Xew Hamp- 
shire he felt that he could most confidently rely; and, sir, the fi:w respon- 
ses to those calls for support which are preserved to us breathe forth such a 
spirit of earnest cooperation, so ardent, so encouraging, so confident, that 
we even cease to be astonished that the hand of Washington was stayed up 
amidst all his trials, his difficulties and his sufferings. [Applause.] 

The later historians of the struggle have already brought conspicuously 
to light the fact that it was not the formidable array of the British hosts, 
or the small force that could be brought into the field against them, that 
made the American prospects so dark during certain periods of the revolu- 
tion. Greater victories have been won by a determined handful against 
more overwhelming odds. 

The sixteen hundred Swiss who routed at Morgartcn the hosts of Leopold 
of Austria, twenty thousand strong, were not braver men than those who 
marked with their bloody foot-prints the winter cantonment at Valley 
Forge, The three hundred young men of "Warsaw, who, under the walls of 
that devoted city suffered themselves to be cut to pieces to a man, in Sep- 
tember 1831, merely to save time to their beseiged brethren, were not more 
heroic than those who led the forlorn hope with Wayne, at Stony Point. 
The defenders at Fort Mifflin showed as much hardihood and courage as 
those at the pass of Thcrmopykx). 

It was not, then, the lack of brave men to lead into battle, or a doubt as 
to the justice of the cause in which he was enlisted, that imparted a des- 
pairing tone to the despatches of Washington through a long period of the 
struggle which he maintained. 

It was a reason which lay far back of all these. It was, in a word, the 



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lukewarmness and jealousy of many of the Provincial Assemblies on ■\vliich 
alone he could rely for support. It is to the eternal glory of New Hamp- 
shire, that during this momentous epoch she was patriotic to her heart's 
core. She had patriots at the council board, and a patriot at the helm of 
her government. 

When, in 1781, symptoms of a general revolt appeared among the Amer- 
ican troops, and nothing seemed able to rescue the cause from total ruin, a 
prompt remittance of twenty-five dollars per man to each of the non-com- 
missioned officers and privates of the New Hampshire line stayed the pro- 
gress of defection among them, and gave AVashington time to procure 
redress and relief from the tardy movements of Congress. This timely relief 
came entirely through the solicitations and efforts of the President of the 
State of New Hampshire. 

Sir, republics are not always ungrateful. In the town of Hampton, near 
the spot which was the theatre of his active cfibrts, and over the remains of 
as true a heart as ever beat at the call of patriotism, the State of New 
Hampshire is now erecting a chaste and noble monument to the ever-revered 
name and memory of Mesiiech Weake. [Loud applause.] 

The nest regular sentiment was announced as follows : 



2. New Hampshire ! Her worthy sons are scattered over the Union and the world. "While 
they are honored in the pulpit, the bar and the bench, at the head of the Government, and 
in all the walks of professional life, the fruitful mother has a large family left at home. 



TuE PrvESiHENT. I regret to state to you that we are deprived of 
the company of the present Chief Magistrate of New Hampshire. I have 
his letter — a most excellent one — but I fear the time will not admit of 
reading it. We have received letters from many distinguished men. Some 
of whom are so advanced in years that they are unable to attend. Wo have 
others from gentlemen who are prevented by their official duties from 
being present. Among them I may mention the letters of Lewis Cass, 
Damel H. Dickinson, Joun P. Hale, Houace Gkeeley, and George S. 
HiLLAKD, President of the '* Sons of Maine." * I propose, then, at this 
moment. 

The health of Goverxok JIaktix, of Nav Hampshire. 

[Applause.] 
The President then introduced Hon. John S. Wells. 

* For letters, complete, see Appendix. 



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Mr. Presidejit : 

The will! and romantic scenery of New Ilampsliire, the energy and per- 
severance of her industrious population, the enlarged minds and patriotic 
hearts of her many far-famed sons, the courage and ability of those who have 
met our nation's foes, and the intimate connection of her history with that 
of the early history of the country, have given to our State a prominent posi- 
tion among the States of the American Union. The opening of the llevolu- 
tion was preceded in New Hampshire by the first overt act of treason against 
the British Crown. Twenty days before the separation was declared in the 
Continental Congress, a draft of a Declaration of Independence by New 
Hampshire, as the sense of her delegates in Legislature assembled, was trans- 
mitted to that body for their consideration. She was the first State of all 
the colonies to agree upon a Constitution, and will, I trust, be the last to 
abandon her constitutional obligations. [Great cheering.] 

She has produced her full proportion of commanding statesmen, and 
furnished ^er quota of brave and daring soldiers. Compulsoj'ij sev\ice was 
never rendered by New Hampshire men. Their motto has ever been — 

"IjC but the foe arraj'ed, 

And war's wild trumpet blown, 
Cold is the heart that does not make 
llis country's cause his own." 

[Cheers.] 

The bravery of New Hampshire men aided in bearing our flag in triumph 
over those far-oS" hills where the ancient Aztecs worshipped ; it has con- 
nected our people with every page of the history of the war of 1812, and 
given to the State an enviable position among the old Thirteen which were 
sprinkled with the blood of revolutionary martyrs. [Applause.] 

And though, Mr. President, the members of your Association have left 
the family hearth-stones, and scenes of youthful sports and revelry, and 
linked their destiny with others, yet, in this organization we see how deep 
and abiding is your attachment to those you have left behind, and to the 
fame and institutions of your native State. And we, sir, I assure you, are 
not unmindful or indifferent to the success of those who have thus gone be- 
yond our borders. It is with just pride and high satisfaction that we can 
point to so many bright and shining lights, casting their brilliant influence 
over this broad land, which were lighted at the New Hampshire altars. 
[Applause.] It is our boast, that in the bar, the pulpit, the halls of Legis- 



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lation, the temples of science and learning, in the army, the navy, in trade, 
commerce, manufactures and mechanic arts, that so many New Hampshire 
men can be referred to, snowing the success of New Hampshire education, 
and the lasting, heaven-like influence of the loved and long to be remembered 
mothers of New Hampshire men. [Great enthusiasm.] 

But while it gives me pleasure to consider the many favorable circum- 
stances in the history of my native State, I am not unmindful of the brilliant 
pages in the records of her New England sisters. They are like diamonds 
in the casket, each reflecting its light upon the other, yet preserving its 
separate and distinct brilliancy. New England ! Who ever turns his 
thoughts upon the scenery, inhabitants, institutions, and productions of New 
England, without exciting within him the most pleasing emotions ? And 
who from New England ever regarded his far-off home as at all acceptable 
until the church spire pointed to the bow of promise, and the grammar 
school-house gave assurance of mental cultivation. [Cheers.] The morality, 
intelligence, and thrift of New England is proverbial the country through. 
Glorious and interesting as is the expanding West, she should not forget the 
moral influence, the physical strength and pecuniary aid which has been 
rendered to her by the inhabitants of the New England States. [Applause.] 
We rejoice that New England has been able to do so much to give stability 
and energ}' to that portion of our country destined to exert such influence 
upon our future history. The draft upon New England, of men and money, 
has been large, constant, and of long duration ; still she has moved constantly 
along, gaining strength and riches with each revolving year, and the wonder 
with those who know us not, is how she has been able to stand such con- 
stant drain. [Applause.] 

True we have a hard and rugged soil, and the blasts of winter are stern 
and withering. But the New England mind is trained in early life to in- 
dustry, frugality, and extra perseverance as difficulties and obstructions 
come up before it. The young are taught to go back to Plymouth llock, 
and learn of those whom the adverse winds brought to our stern New Eng- 
land coast. The principles which actuated those men will never cease to 
influence the New England character. The weak and timed flee, but those 
men gazed upon the wild, rough, wintry coast, and faltered not. [Applause.] 

Behind them was the raging, foaming, stormy sea ; beyond was their native 
land, their cherished homes, their loved and loving friends. Before them 
was the frowning forest, the savage tribes, dread uncertaintj', and the gloom 
of a New England winter. Wives and children stood around them, fearing 
to retrace their stormy path, and dreading to approach the unknown shore. 
As the Mayflower swung to her anchors in the bay, no wailings reached the 
ears of the gazing, astonished natives. But 



MR. WELLS'S SPEECn. 01 

"Amidst tlio storm the Pilgiiin? sang, 

And tlie stars heard, and tlio sea. 
And the sounding aisles of the dim woods ran" 

To the anthems of the free." 

[Cheers.] 

Mr. President, wherever our birth-place or our homes, to which ever 
point we may turn for aid and counsel in times of trial or affliction, we should 
never forget that we are members of the great brotherhood of American 
freemen, and bound to render our best services for the glory and honor of 
our nation. The last hero of the revolution is yet to be gathered to his 
fathers ; and yet young as is our country, it is the wonder and admiration 
of man. See it expanding, and yet strengthening ; rapidly increasing in 
numbers, and yet orderly and law-abiding; multiplying in wealth and 
luxuries, and yet plain and simple in all its operations ; aroused to the 
highest pitch of partisan excitement, and yet cheerfully and quietly submit- 
ting to the will of the majority [cheers] ; the ballot in every hand, and 
almost every hand guided with judgment and propriety; its laws and con- 
stitutions within the power and control of the masses, and ^-et honestly sus- 
tained and efficiently enforced. [Tlenewed cheers.] Well may such a people 
and government excite surprise in the minds of those who do not understand 
the capacity and the rights of man. [Cheers.] 

To establish this peculiar government, the good men of our nation perilled 
all. To sustain it, patriotic men have never ceased to labor. And may 
the Sons of New Hampshire, wherever their abiding place, give it their con- 
stant, earnest aid, and thereby prove the truthfulness of the theory, that the 
love of country and devotion to the cause of liberty is characteristic of 
those whose homes are in the regions of bold and romantic scenery. [Pro- 
longd applause.] 

The Presidext. I interrupt the order of proceedings to give way to 
my Ptev. Brother on the right, (Dr. Stow) who will address you with a 
sentiment. 

Rev. 1>AR0N Stow said that it was necessary, for him at this stage of the 
proceedings, to retire, and he had asked permission to give as a toast — 

The Festivals of the Sons of New Hampshire — ^lay thcj' never illustrate the Greek idea 
— symposia, drinking together; but ahvaj-s the lioman, in its best sense — convivia, living 
together. 

[Cheers.] 

The Chair called upon Ex. Gov. Kent, of Maine, who responded as 
follows : 



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ill;-. Fresideiit : 

Mj associations and recollections of New Hampshire are those of child- 
hood and boyhood. It is well known that I have passed the years of ray 
manhood in another and neighboring State. But I have never lost my at- 
tachment to the home of my childhood, or the recollection of its events and 
scenes. Uut those recollections and associations, as I said, are those con- 
nected with the scenes and events of youth, and not those of maturer years. 
They are of the school-house, " the district school as it was," of the ferule, 
[Applause] of the field, of the river, of the fishing rod. I remember the 
books of that day. Who, sir, of my age, can have forgotten that remarka- 
ble production, ""Webster's Spelling Book." Who, sir, can forget that 
striking face that was imprinted on the bare boards and " faced the title- 
page," and underneath which we read, in those wondering days, that it was 
the veritable presentment of Noah Webster, Junior, Esquire. [Loud laugh- 
ter and applause.] Sir, I trust that I have as great a respect for the giant 
intellect and mighty powers of the man whose name he bore, as any son of 
New Hampshire, and yet I doubt whether I shall ever be able to raise 
in my mind such emotions of reverential awe towards him, or any other 
mere man, as I paid to that remarkable " Websterian face." How I pon- 
dered as I gazed, — 

"Aud still I gazed, and still the wonder grew, 
That one poor head could carry all he knew." 

[Tumultuous laughter.] 

And then, sir, what a wonderful book it was ! From " baker " to " that 
wlcked^^ea that no man pursueth," it is full of sententious brevity and prac- 
tical wisdom. And those illustrated fables ! Who can ever forget that 
rude boy [great laughter] in the apple tree, who would not come down when 
grass only was applied to him, [renewed laughter] but, like the impudent 
" young sauce-box " that he was, "plainly said he would not." And how 
we saw in the sequel that there was potential virtue in stones, rightly 
aimed. I remember that the printers were so kind as to put the word 
"Moral" over the reflections after each fu'jle, to show us very kindly — as 
the boy said — what to skip. At all events, if I read them I have for- 
gotten the morals deduced by the author, but the fables are full of wisdom 
for all times. Why, sir, in that very fable of the boy and apple tree, you 



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■will perhaps find the germ of the Maine Liquor Law, And the antipodes 
of the old apothegm, that " easy blows kill the devil." [Renewed laughter.] 

And then, sir, you remember the wise old fox, who thought it best to let 
the present incumbents remain, for fear that the new swarm would be more 
exacting. A most comfortable doctrine for the " ins," and they doubtless 
think the old fox a very wise and conservative Reynard. But not quite so 
satisfiictory to those who are anxious to " stick their bills " in, or entirely 
consoling to removed office holders. [Laughter and cheers.] We next cast 
our eyes of memory on that prostrate individual, with the shaggy bear 
smelling about him to see if life was extinct, whilst his false friend, like a 
nimble politician, was forming a new coalition with the tree in the distance, 
[great laughter,] abandoning his comrade to the tender mercies of old Bruin. 
And perhaps that simulating man on the ground, deceiving the olflictories 
of the bear, may have been a foreshadowing of the bears and the bulls of 
the stock exchange [Laughter.] 

I remember another fable, sir, and that was probably inserted that there 
might be a like lesson for the fair sex as well as for ours, I allude to that 
dainty dairy maid, who was tossing her head so superciliously with that 
unfortunate pail of milk upon it. [Laughter.] A lesson intended, no 
doubt, to teach our fiir sisters the danger of tossing the head, especially 
when all their wealth is upon it. [Vociferous cheering.] 

Now, sir, it is a veritable fact, that I have not looked into that book for 
at least twenty years, (some friend in his kindness suggests it must be nearer 
thirty, and alas, me ! it may be so,) and I allude to these things to show 
how strongly we are impressed with the recollections of childhood, particu- 
larly as connected with New Hampshire district schools. Sir, the proudest 
day of my life — I never expect on any other day to feel quite so grand, — 
was the day I went to school, and for the first time carried a writing book, 
and took my seat among the " distinguished writers of that school " — 
[great laughter,] armed, if I recollect aright, with an earthen-ware inkstand, 
with a wooden stopper, filled with cotton, saturated with ink, — [boisterous 
merriment,] with an undutched goose-quill, white as when plucked from the 
mother bird, and with a leaden plummet, which I had set up half the night 
to run, and which was a remarkable cross between a broad axe and a toma- 
hawk; [Cheers and laughter.] 

I am aware, sir, that all this may not be exactly dignified, [laughter,] 
but as I told you before, and you must accept it as my apology, I have very 
little recollection of New Hampshire, except as connected with the scenes 
to which I have alluded. 

Do you remember, sir, the first fish you ever caught ? [Laughter.] I 
remember most distinctly. I could go to the very spot on Bow brook, where 



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I first saw the finny treasure floundering on the green sward, and standing 
on that spot and looking back upon life, I could say, with a distinguished 
and adnairable poet of our day, 

" Oh ! vrhat are tlio prizes 'sve perish to win, 
To the first little shiner we caught with a pin." 

[Unbounded merriment.] 

I will conclude with a sentiment having reference to New Hampshire. I 
did not rise to make a speech. [Laughter.] Indeed, I have been absent 
from this speech-making country so long that I really have lost the knack 
of it. [Laughter.] And no wonder I should be a little topsy-turvy in my 
ideas and speech, since I have been in a country where Christmas comes in 
the middle of summer and Fourth of July in the middle of winter. [Laugh- 
ter.] So, sir, I must be excused from making what may be called a speech, 
and offer simply a sentiment : 

The State of New Hampshire — Like the widow's cruise of oil, always pouring out, but 
never exhausted. 

[Great cheering.] 

The PiiESiDENT. The gentlemen reporters, and the rest of the audience, 
will please take notice that Gov. Kent has spoken as a New Ilarapshirc 
man, and although he has received the highest honors of the State of 
Maine, we cannot pay our respects to that Commonwealth, until we have 
done honor to Massachusetts. 

Mr. Wilder then said : We are to be favored with several poems this 
evening, but I now propose the singing of a Hymn sent by Professor Ur- 
HAM, of Bowdoin College. The vast assembly then rose and joined in its 
performance. 

Lines suggested by the occurrence of the Social Festival of the Sons of New Hamps?iire, 
to be held at Boston, November 2, 1853. 

BY PROF. THOMAS C. rPHAM, EOWDOIN COLLEGE. 

TCXE — " Old Hundred:' 

Where'er our wandering footsteps roam, 

To thee our fond affections cling, 
Land of our love! Our childhood's home! 

Land of the cliflf and eagle's wine;' 



MR. GORDON'S RESOLUTION. OK 

IIow proudly stands the mountain height 

That overlooks the vales and streams! 
In youth it shone to bless our sight; 

In age it lingers in our dreams. 

' Tis in the mountain that the heart 

Restores its thought and purpose high, 
To act the just, the noble part. 

For God, for truth, and liberty. 

How oft has freedom, in the days 

Of grief and war's disastrous shocks, 
Her shattered banner dared to raise 

Once more upon the mountain rocks. 

Enthralmont cannot climb that height; 

Slaves cannot breathe that upper air ; 
Emblem of freemen — 'tis the flight 

Of eagles only that is there. 

We love thee, land of rocks and rills! 

Land of the wood, the lake, the glen! 
Great in the grandeur of thy hills. 

And greater in thj- mighty men. 

The President introJttced Geo. W. Gordon, Esq., who said : 

I rise to ask your attention for one moment to a matter of purely business 
character. I apprehend that it is generally understood that the present 
organization of the Sons of New Hampshire, in this city, will terminate with 
this Festival. "With a view to a future organization, a new choice of officers 
and committees, and for the purpose of vesting in a proper body power and 
obligation to call together, at a general meeting, the Sons of New Hamp- 
shire resident in this city and vicinity, I am directed by the unanimous 
vote of the General Committee, comprising the present organization, to pro- 
pose for adoption the resolution which, with your permission, I will now 
read : 

Resolved, That a Committee of ten, to consist of one member from each county in Xew 
Ilampshire, be now appointed, who shall be charged with the duty of calling a general 
meeting of the Sons of Xew Hampshire resident in Boston and vicinity, at such time within 
the next five years as they may deem expedient, for the purpose of organizing for a Third 
Festival; and for such other occasion or occasions as circumstances and events may in the 
mean time, in their judgment, call for. That said Committee have power to Cll any vacancy 
that may occur in their number. 

The resolution was unanimously adopted, and the Chair requested to ap 
point the Committee. 



gg NEW IIAMPSniRE FESTIVAL, 

Mr. Wilder said that the Committee authorized by the resolution ■woulo 
be announced through the press at an early day, and then gave as the third 
regular sentiment — 

3. The good old Commonwcallh of Massachusetts — Though not born upon her soil, Tvc 
appreciate her ■worth; we are proud of her history; -we ■would guard her fair fame, and join 
heart and hand -with her native sons in promoting her prosperity and glory. 

He said he ^vas not aware that there was any official in the room at the 
time to answer to that sentiment, and he would call upon the Hon. Joiix H. 
WiLKiNS, Ex-Senator of this Commonwealth. 



Speed] jof ||0K. goht- |), Miduns. 

Mr. Presideyit and Ge7itlemen : 

I dislike apologies, but I have great respect for facts. It is a fact that 
the first intimation I received that I was expected to contribute to the enter- 
tainment of this evening, in the way of a speech, was made to mc this after- 
noon at the State House, when the President asked me to respond to the 
sentiment just announced. On pleading my utter want of preparation, he 
replied that 1 7}7ust do it, or get some one else. So calling to mind the 
fable of the Farmer and the Larks, the moral of which is, that if you want 
any thing to be done, do it yourself, and if you do not, call upon your 
neighbors, I concluded to say a few words for the good old Commonwealth. 
For any short comings, therefore, in my response, I must plead these circum- 
stances. 

But fortunately, Mr. President and gentlemen, the subject of the senti- 
ment just announced is one on which any one may speak, prepared or unpre- 
pared. For we cannot open a page of her history without being dazzled 
with the splendor of her deeds and the renown of her sons. [Cheers.] 

Who of us, gentlemen, does not, in some degree, envy the genuine sons 
of Massachusetts their rich and unparalleled inheritance of liberty, law 
and order, derived from their Pilgrim Fathers ? It is true we share in the 
same riches, but in a more lateral and less direct manner. So, also, who 
does not in a degree envy them their legacy of patriotism and public virtue 
which has descended to them from the great men of the revolution, her 
Adamses and her Haxcocks ? Who does not admire her long line of wise and 
patriotic Governors, from John Hancock and Samuel Adams down to Gov. 
Clifford? Also, her irreproachable and learned Bench; her talented and 
aithful Bar; her zealous and eloquent Pulpit — and as to literature, where 



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shall we beliold a galaxy more splendid than that which embraces her Ever- 
ett and her Baxcroft, her Prescott and her Hawthorne ? Who of us would 
not rejoice to stand in the same relation to these worthies that the sons of 
Massachusetts do ? [Applause.] 

Again, are we not all admirers of the institutions of the Old Bay State; 
her colleges, her institutions of benevolence, her insane hospitals, her pau- 
per establishments ? Where shall we look for her equal in all these 
respects ? Where, also, shall we look for a richer display of the produc- 
tions of ingenuity and industry than is to be seen at her Mechanics' Fair ? 
Where for a finer exhibition of the products of the soil than in her agricul- 
tural and horticultural shows ? And finally, where for a more admirable 
exhibition of horses than one recently made at Springfield ? 

Gentlemen, we all feel and know that there is something lovely and 
attractive in this good old Commonwealth — else why are we here? We 
have left our native hills and valleys to take shelter under her wing ; to 
mingle our labors and toils with those of her sons and other citizens, and to 
contribute what we may to her wealth and her renown. While, therefore, it 
is our peculiar pride this day that we are sons of New Hampshire, let us 
also rejoice that we are citizens of Massachusetts. 

In conclusion, I offer this sentiment : 

Massachusetts — Uer past prosperity is a sure augury of her future progress. 

[Loud cheers.] 
The Chair gave the next regular sentiment : 

4. The City of Boston — We looked to her for the protection of our rights — we havO 
found her the guardian of our honor. 

and called upon his Honor the Mayor to respond. 

Mr. President : 

Boston, to-day, certainly wears very much a New Hampshire aspect, and 
I am glad of it. 1 hope she will always wear it ; and I was glad to hear 
you say, sir, that you had more of the same sort left. I say to New 
Hampshire, bring them on ; we have room for them here, and the more that 
come the better it will be for us. [Cheers.] 

But, sir, as I am aware that this occasion belongs to the Sons of New 
Hampshire, I shall not presume to occupy more than a moment of time in 



gg XEW HAMrSIIIRE FESTIVAL. 

returning my grateful acknowledgements and thanks for the compliraentarj 
sentiment proposed by you in honor of the city of Eoston. If I were to 
say that Boston was deeply indebted to New Hampshire for the large num- 
ber of estimable, talented, and enterprising citizens which she has furnished 
it, I should only state what is well known to all. [Cheers.] Every city 
and state of our Union is indebted to New Hampshire in this respect ; and 
everywhere her sons will be found among the prominent men of the country. 
[Cheers.] I regard it, sir, as highly honorable and complimentary to our 
city, that she has offered inducements to such men to come hither, and to 
cast their lot with us; they would have come to no meayi city. Here the 
sons of New Hampshire have found ample field for the successful exercise of 
their talents and enterprise, and here they have been appreciated. New 
Hampshire men have here, and everywhere, been the ready and steady 
supporters of all literary, religious and benevolent institutions. [Loud 
applause.] Our own city furnishes a long list of honored names among the 
living and the dead, who have contributed largely, in this way, to give it 
character and reputation. [Cheers.] 

Mr. President, I reorard these occasions as among the r<;ood si2;ns of the 
times ; they take us back to our early homes, the homes of our childhood — 
to the recollections of affectionate fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters, to 
our days of simplicity and purity. [Applause.] They withdraw us, for a 
brief season at least, from the engrossing cares of worldly pursuits, and lead 
to serious reflection, and to the formation of good resolutions. In any 
point of view they must be productive of good, and I hope they will be con- 
tinued, not only by the natives of New Hampshire, but by those among us 
of other States. [Cheers.] 

But, Mr. President, as I said in the beginning, it is not for me to occupy 
the valuable time of this meeting. I came here to listen rather than to 
speak ; and I have intended merely to express my heartfelt acknowledgments 
to you for your personal kindness to me, and for the compliment you have 
paid to our good old city of Boston — God bless her, I say, always ! [Loud 
applause.] I see, sir, upon my right hand and upon my left, gentlemen 
whom I have known ever since I knew the Old South Church, and whom I 
have always supposed were natives of Boston, but whom I find, after all, 
hail from the good " old Granite State." [Applause] 

Gentlemen, a sad thought came into my mind in connection with this fact. 
I said to myself, suppose New Hampshire men should take it into their 
heads to pack up their trunks and go home ! Boston would then be a bye- 
gone. [Applause.] I give you, sir — 

iVfic Hampshire — Ricli in her revolutionary history, rich in the patriotism, intelli- 
gence and moral worth of her sons. 



PROF. SANBOnN'S SPEECH. oq 

Mr. Wilder aunouuced the next regular toast : — 

5. The Judiciary — A pure foundation ; from whence proceed the streams of private enjoy- 
ment and public security. 

and called upon Ex-Governor Harvey of New Hampsliirc, who responded 
in a very happy manner, but excused himself from making a long speech. 

The next regular sentiment : 

G. Dartmouth College — A Northern star of "purest ray serene." The Son.s of New 
Hampshire will never go astray so long as they follow its guiding and cheering light. 

Professor Saxborn of Dartmouth College, was called upon to respond to 
this, and spoke as follows : 

Drofcssoc €: §. Sanborn's fpcttlj. 

It was a beautiful custom of the Greeks to send from home their young 
adventurers,^ with a public consecration under the guardianship of their tute- 
lary divinities. The colonists departed as the children, and not as the sub- 
jects of the State. Their political relations were exchanged for those of 
filial affection and religious reverence. They owed to their native land 
nothing but love. In their new homes they built temples, and dedicated 
them to the gods their fathers worshipped, and honored them with ancestral 
rites. Priests from the ancient temples ministered at the new altars. The 
sacred fire which was kept constantly burning on the public hearth of the 
colon}^ was taken from the altar of Ycsta in the council hall of the parent 
State. When the colony in turn sent out a similar band, a leader was sum- 
moned from home. Such, in many respects, have been the annual colonies 
that have left the academic shades of Dartmouth College. [Cheers.] They 
have sought other States and other climes ; and, like the Greek colonies, 
have often reared temples of science which surpassed their Alma Mater in 
wisdom, renown and resources. They left the home of their intellectual 
pupilage with a parent's blessing. They were bound to the mother that 
nurtured them only by ties of affection and reverence. They carried with 
them a portion of that Vestal fire which is never permitted to go out upon 
the altar of science. They have held this seat of learning in honorable 
remembrance. They have often visited the scenes of their early trials and 
victories. Like the Greeks, they honor her solemn festivals ; but like the 
same Greeks, they do not always bring their offerings to the shrine of learn- 
injc. The children of the Grecian States made regular contributions to sus- 

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90 NEW IIAMPSIIIKE FESTIVAL. 

tain the time-honored ceremonies of their native land. They lent their aid 
in times of peril and distress; so that it often happened that their father- 
land was not only preserved, but enlarged by the liberality and patriotism 
of its sons. 

The graduates and friends of Dartmouth have not been wholly unmindful 
of this venerable custom. Her library has been recently enlarged, and her 
means of scientific research greatly multiplied, by the munificence of gen- 
tlemen who learned their lessons of liberality in Boston. [Applause.] 
Here every man is expected to be generous. Beneficence is a civic virtue; 
and a penurious spirit would at once be branded with infamy, and forever 
ostracized from the Commonwealth. 

" That man may last, but never lives, 
AVho much receives and nothing gives, 
Whom none can love, whom none can thank, 
Creation's blot, creation's blank." 

This single city has contributed more for charitable purposes, since its 
settlement, than all the States of antiquity bestowed in a thousand years 
upon their starving millions. Indeed, the poor were seldom cared for, either 
by public or private chariticsj except when starvation drove the maddened 
populace to rebellion. Then the public granaries were opened, and a scanty 
pittance of corn was doled out to the famished crowd. 

" Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts 
And eloquence, native to famous wits 
Or honorable," 

never learned the notion of the common brotherhood of the rich and the 
poor; or that other great truth, which is enstamped in ineffaceable 
characters upon all Christian institutions, that every man has a soul to 
save. With a population equal to that of Boston, and, in the language of 
poetry, with a thousand dependencies, the history of her public charities 
might all be inscribed upon the pedestal of Jupiter's statue, and leave a 
wide margin for the commentaries of scholiasts besides. A few clubs or 
associations for social enjoyment, which Dr. Arnold pronounces " the eternal 
curse of society in every age," poured the surplus of their treasury into the 
empty purses of the poor ; but a purely charitable society did not exist. 
Christianity has turned the golden tide of affluence into other channels. 
Public buildings, temples and propylsea, do not now absorb all the avail- 
able funds of the State and of individuals. 

No Pericles or Augustus gains immortality by boasting that he found a 
city of bricks, and left it a city of marble. 

Rome had her Miecenas, Florence her Leo X., and France her Louis 



PROF. SANBOUNS SPEECU. q-i 

XIV., who patronized scholars to secure their own immortality. Boston 
counts her merchant princes and literati by scores, who endow colleges and 
schools because they arc lovers of learning; and they alleviate human 
suffering because they are followers of Christ, "who went about doin<T 
good." 

Institutions arc now founded for the poor, the blind, the insane, and last, 
though not least, for the imbecile and idiotic. This good city stands pre- 
eminent in these labors of love. Here the language of poetry becomes his- 
tory— 

"Tho primal duties sliinc aloft like stars ; 
The charities thai soothe, and heal, and bless, 
Arc scattered at the feet of man like flowers." 

Keligion and learning, churches and colleges, draw upon the funds of 
this prosperous city, and their drafts, if reasonable, are never dishonored. 
But the kindness of distant friends, like the polar sun, is too far removed 
to warm. The college of New Hampshire is remote from the great centres 
of business and wealth. Her patrons are chiefly the farmers and mechanics 
of New England. Her officers labor for a bare support. Her students, to 
a considerable extent, support themselves. She has always been poor in 
resources, but rich in her sous. These are her jcM'els. [CJrcat cheering.] 

" Felix prole virum * * * 
* ****** 

Lacta deum, partu, centum complcxa ncpotes 
Omncs coelicolas, omnes supcra alta tencutcs." 

But I need not discourse to you of the character of her sons. As Crom- 
well said of his government, "This is a thing that speaks for itself" 
The College has her representatives in every department of business, and in 
stations of the highest respectability, both in church and state. Though at 
first she was but the " voice of one crying in the wilderness," " she now 
crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates ; in the 
city she uttercth her words." She enrols among her graduates many names 
which the nation, aye, whom the world delights to honor. [Cheers.] The 
most brilliant diamonds are often found in the most forbidding localities ; 
but when cut and polished, they are fitted to adorn the brow of beauty, or 
shine in the palaces of kings. 

I have studied the records of the past with some care, and if tho annals 
of the world have furnished an orator superior to our Wedstek, — and I 
almost dare to add, his last living eulogist, — I have failed to appreciate 
rightly both the dead and the living. [Cheers.] 

New Hampshire has a barren soil, yielding a scanty reward to the labors 



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of industry. It is her true vocation to raise men. This is a crop that 
never suffers by transplanting. [Cheers.] 

The people of New England are migratory. The primitive stock from 
which they derived their origin, has always been advancing, both in geo- 
graphical position and in intellectual culture. They came from Central 
Asia, that great officina gentium, from which successive tides of population 
have rolled westward, till they have almost encircled the globe. They left 
the early abodes of mankind at a period " whereto the memory of man 
runneth not to the contrary." [Cheers.] It was before Neptune raised his 
trident in the ^Egean ; before Jove took his seat on Olympus; before 
ancient Saturn ruled over the rustic tribes of Italy; almost as soon as 
father Time began to gather in his harvest of apostate men at the base of 
Mount Ararat. They have traversed continents and oceans, till now the 
weary emigrant bathes his feet in the waters of the Pacific seas ; and the 
balmly breezes of Ceylon, laden with the perfumes of the East, fan his 
heated brow. [Applause.] Here the fathers and the children meet again. 
Oriental and occidental civilization stand face to face on the shores of Cal- 
ifornia. By comparing the attainments of the hardy adventurers and the 
quiet stayers-at-home, we find that the children have been improved by 
travel. The most active and enterprising are apt to be dissatisfied with 
present attainments, and oftenest desert the homes that nurtured them. 

"From the rock where our fathers in exile first landed, 
Their clearing from river to river lias spread; 
And mountains and plains by their sons are commanded, 
Till now on the beach of Pacific they tread." 

[Applause.] 
The citizens of our land, like their fathers, are often changing their abodes. 
About one in four leaves his native State. Connecticut, the land of steady 
habits, has furnished a larger number of emigrants in proportion to its 
population, than any other northern State. New Hampshire is not, there- 
fore, the best State to emigrate from. But how sadly has the meaning of 
that phrase been perverted. Its true interpretation indicates the success of 
those who leave the State, and therefore reflects honor on the institutions 
that reared them. The man who has the New Hampshire mark upon him 
is sure to make his mark upon the world. [Cheers.] He is a man o^ mark, 
of "-enuiue granite solidity, strength and weight of character. When you 
buy an article of Sheffield cutlery you look for the manufacturer's name, 
for you know that there are good shops for tools to come from, as well as 
good countries for men to emigrate from. "When you read the name of 
Koo-ers & Sons, you feel assured that you have a good blade, of fine temper 
and keen edge. So with a Yankee blade, with the N. H. signature upon it. 



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It will boar the clash of arms ; and the harder it is struck, the louder it 
will ring. New Hampshire is, therefore, a good State to emigrate from ; be- 
cause her sons come to honor ; because they are sought out for places of 
responsibility and trust — from the Presidential chair to the jury bos. Na- 
tives of New Hampshire are found in all the States, and in most foreign 
lands. 

"You scarce can go to the world below, 
But you'll find New Hampshire men ; 
And if you roam the world above, 
You'll find thcin there again." 

[Applause.] 
It is, however, a sad reflection to those who "abide by the stuff," that so 
many of the young and enterprising sons of New Hampshire find it for 
their interest to leave the State. The interests of agriculture are suffering 
in consequence. The old homesteads are left to be cultivated by the feeble 
arms of age. Many of the best farming towns are fast losing their popu- 
lation. In some large villages, not a young man who has attained his ma- 
jority within the last ten years, remains at home. Those who have sought 
the El Dorado of the west, I fear, will not succeed as they hoped. Like 
children, they have chased the rainbow, and possibly they may find the pot 
of money buried at its terminus. But let time and experience determine 
that question. 

At present the true policy of New Hampshire is education, intellectual 
and moral culture. It is her true province to originate and develop mind 
and skill. With Yankee foresight she has already embarked in the "skill 
business," with her five New England sisters as active partners in the firm. 
Her common schools receive the fostering care of her legislators. Her 
academies are second to none in the Union. They are rapidly increasing in 
number and resources. Within twenty-five years her academic pupils have 
been quadrupled. Her College, during the same time, has increased its 
numbers nearly one-third. These facts show that New Hampshire under- 
stands her destiny ; and if thousands of the young, the stropg and enter- 
prising, have left the old eyry, others are now pluming their pinions for a 
flight when the breezes are propitious. "The cry is still they come;" and, 
let them come, if they will sustain the reputation which their elder brothers 
have already acquired for the State ; and like them continue to cherish the 
land of their birth. This social gathering here to-day, indicates the pulsa- 
tions of patriotic hearts. With great propriety we may use the beautiful 
language of one of New Hampshire's daughters : 

"Why turn we to our mountain homes 
With more than filial feeling 1 
'Tis here that Freedom's altars rise, 
And Freedom's sons are kneeling ! " 



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" Why sigh wc not for softer climes 1 
Why cling to that which bore us 1 
'Tis here we tread on Freedom's soil, 
With Freedom's sunshine o'er us ! " 

I doubt not many of the youthful emigrants from New Plampshire are 
bound to their native State by tenderer ties than those of patriotism. There 
is probably many a one here to-day who is reverting in fond recollection to 
the scenes of his childhood — to the hills down which he coasted, and the 
meadows where he skated in winter ; to the forests in which he hunted, and 
the brooks where he angled in the summer — to 

" The old oaken bucket that hung in the well," 

where he had slaked his thirst when the dog star raged ; and, perhaps to 
those shady nooks and quiet moonlight walks, when she hung upon his arm 
of whom his heart still whispers — 

"She was a form of life and light. 
That seen, became a part of sight, 
And rose where'er I tarn'd my eye, 
The morning star of memory." 

In conclusion, allow me to offer the following sentiment: 

The Old Homesteads of New Hampshire — The abodes of peace and plenty, of piety and 
patriotism. 

[Prolonged cheering.] 

The Chair then introduced PRorESSOR Brown, of Dartmouth College, who 
made the following response : 



f peed] at llrofessat Bmwd 6\\\\m '§xa[mi 

Mr. President and Gentlemen : 

It is hardly necessary for me to add a word to what has already been 
said by my colleague ; and I should not rise except to repeat our acknow- 
ledgment of the courtesy which has so amply remembered the only College 
of New Hampshire. Yet there are one or two topics, as yet hardly 
alluded to, which may, without impropriety, be brought to the notice of 
this assembly. We are aware, I trust, how many and various are the 
elements which go to make up a State : the labor, skill, commerce, justice, 
courage and faith, all which, and more, find ample scope among a vigorous 
and prosperous people, and are necessary to their advancement and stability. 
But among them all let us give due honor to that intellectual cultivation 
which is directly or indirectly concerned with every improvement and enter- 



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prise ; nor forget that part of a State's prosperity wliich she must owe to her 
literary men. What Athens was more than Sparta, and Eome than Etruria, 
and England under Elizabeth than England under the Edwards and 
Henrys, — more in general cultivation and refinement, in scope of thought, 
in permanent fame and undying influence, — maybe ascribed in no small 
measure to the superior cultivation of literature and science. [Cheers.] 

The Spartan was a model of obedience, discipline and courage ; the 
Etruscan was distinguished in arts, and powerful in arms ; the early Enf- 
lishman as steady and vigorous as the later ; but all owe the respect in 
which their memory is held, and even the knowledge which we have of their 
discipline and achievement, to the faithful and eloquent record of their 
rivals or successors. Fortunate is the nation which does brave deeds, and 
doubly fortunate if it produce a historian to narrate, or a poet to sing them. 

Of those, Mr. President, who may thus honor the State by cultivating 
and diffusing the spirit of art, and learning, and science, New Hampshire has 
sent forth some, has cherished others, and, on the whole, as parent or guar- 
dian, will be thought, I hope, not to have fallen below her proper rank. 
[Applause.] She is not, indeed, equal in every respect to her more fortunate 
neighbors ; she cannot boast of historians such as Massachusetts enrols on 
her scroll of fame ; yet, in many departments she has done well, in some 
she is eminent. Especially in her professional literature, written and 
unwritten, will she stand honorably among her sister States. Where, in the 
whole country, is there a bar which can boast of members superior in legal 
ability and learning to her Smiths and Livermores, her Bells and Masons, 
her PiiCHARDsoNS and Bartletts, her Woodburys and Websters. [Cheers.] 
Whore is their a State whose pulpits have been fiivored with men of richer 
thought and warmer charity (to mention one or two as representatives of 
Iheir class) than ArrLETON, whose profound and philosophic mind led him 
along the deepest ways of theology, and whose works are worthy to be 
placed side by side with those of Bishop Butler, or Buckminster, — a name 
specially loved and honored in this city, from whose opinions though some 
might differ, none could help admiring the beauty of his character, and 
reverencing the nobleness of his life. And if I should speak of that other 
profession, which moves more quietly among the secret places of society, 
relieving the sufferer and shedding benificence every where, we should find 
that New Hampshire has done something in honor of medical science by the 
high character of her medical men, by the publications of her societies, and 
by supplying the wants of public institutions at home and abroad. 

In maintaining this general eminence of the learned profession, in keep- 
ing alive the love of science and letters, of taste and of art, the influence of 
Dartmouth College will be duly estimated. 



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But tliere is yet another way in which she has done something for the 
State. She was not founded for New Hampshire alone. Established with 
no seelusive local policy or purpose, and consecrated as she was from the 
beginning to the two great objects of being a handmaid of religion and a 
mistress of learning, that both might be diifused, each moving in harmony 
with the other, she has gathered her sons from various regions, and, invigor- 
ating their bodies by the fresh air of the mountains, and their minds by the 
discipline of her studies, she has sent them forth in due time, East, West, 
North and South, through every State, all over the world. [Applause.] 
She might ask you to accompany her, as with a mother's pride [magni 
mater a?noris) she followed one and another in his path through life. She 
would take you beyond the seas, and point to some standing before kings as 
representatives of their country ; to others on the shores of the Bosphorus, 
in India, in China, and the Sandwich Islands, laboring with a man's energy 
in the noblest of moral enterprises, solving the grandest of problems, to 
make a Christian and intelligent nation out of a people superstitious, igno- 
rant and degraded. She would point you to still others establishing the 
schools and incipient colleges, and directing the printing presses of Oregon 
and California. Leading you back from the great circuit, she would pause 
in every State in the Union, and name the writers, the jurists, the senators, 
in whose breeding she had some share ; and, finally, ending where she began, 
would she take you in her sorrow and pride, every 24th of October, down to 
the sea-side, that you might bend with reverent afiection, and meditate 
beside the grave of her greatest son. [Sensation.] Nay more ; just now 
might she bid you listen to another of her sons commemorating the virtues 
of the elder ; closing up the remarkable and unexampled series of eulogies — 
begun so nobly and fitly in Fanueil Hall — with a warmth of sympathy, a 
philosophic depth and grandeur, a copiousness of thought and a prodigality 
of beauty, which even Burke could not have excelled, which Cicero might 
have listened to with delight. [Great applause.] 

I know, Mr. President, that many of the graduates of the College are not 
sons of New Hampshire. Yet are they connected with her. New Hamp- 
shire was their foster-mother, if not their mother. They caught some spirit 
from her ; drew health and strength from her winds and mountains ; fed 
their lamps at her reservoirs, and lighted them at the fire of her altars. 
Some part of their fame is ours, and much, I hope, of their sympathy and 
love. [Applause.] 

It is of some consequence, then, that an Institution within the State can call 
back such sons from without it. It is no fiction that the life-blood of each 
State circulates through all, and in celebrating, by our Festival, the honors 
of one of the confederacy, we are not cultivating narrow, and local, and sec- 



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tional feelings, but only demonstrate the necessary order and harmony of 
the social and civic virtues. 

Permit me, Mr. President, without trespassing longer upon your atten- 
tion and kindness, to propose as a sentiment : 

The good fortune cf that State ichich parts tilth her jewels 07iJy to multiply her treasures of power 
andfame. 

[Great applause.] 

Rev. Mr. Huntoon asked leave of the President to make a few remarks 
which were suggested by Professor Brown's speech, and proceeded as 
follows : 

f |)cttlr 0f Sell. §cnj;imiu guntooiL 

At the suggestion of brother Aiken on my right, and prompted by the 
emotions that swell in my own bosom at hearing the voice and looking on 
the face of Professor Brown, recognizing the image of the father in the 
son, I have asked permission of the President to add one other name to 
those of the distinguished clergymen already mentioned by that gentleman ; 
a name, which the delicate sensibility of filial piety, and the tender recollec- 
tions of parental endearments, forbade him to utter on this occasion ; a 
"iiame, sir, that can never fail to awaken sentiments of the highest esteem, 
and call up the liveliest emotions of grateful remembrance in the hearts of 
all those who were favored with the personal acquaintance and the valua- 
ble instructions of the late Rev. Francis Brown, D. D. ; the beloved, the 
revered, and the lamented President of Dartmouth College. President 
Brown, sir, died at the early age of thirty -sis, having attained a high emi- 
nence in the walks of literature and science. No eulogy of mine, were I 
to attempt it, could rightly celebrate his character and worth. He was an 
accomplished scholar, an eloquent preacher, a devout Christian, — a man of 
strong practical common sense, of sound erudition, of various comprehen- 
sive knowledge, from whom, I am credibly informed, Jeremiah Mason and 
Daniel "Webster, in the research and preparation for the trial of the cele- 
brated Dartmouth College case, said they received more aid, in regard to 
leo'al precedents and authorities pertinent to that case, than from any other 
man living. [Applause.] 

And now, Mr. President, since by your kindness I have been thus per- 
mitted to enjoy the sight of this living panorama of the old homes and do- 
mestic hearths; of the rural vallies and the sloping hills of New Hampshire, 
covering more than nine thousand square miles of moving canvas, shall 

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93 NEW nAMPSUIRE FESTIVAL. 

I still trespass upon your indulgence by alluding to two or three other dit- 
tiuguished names among the clergy of our native State. [Go on, go on.] I 
mention then, sir, the Rev. Thomas Worcester, of Salisbury, N. H., the 
much esteemed minister of my childhood, and of whose church the honored 
and beloved father and mother of our illustrious brother, to whom you have 
so eloquently referred, as the first President of our Association, were wor- 
thy members. Aye, sir, and one of the earliest, and now most fondly cher- 
ished recollections of my boyhood-days is, that of seeing Daniel Webster, 
then a young man, just graduated from Dartmouth College, present himself 
in the broad aisle of the old meeting-house, and reverently take upon him- 
self the solemn vows and covenant of a Christian profession. And his con- 
nection with that church was never dissolved to the day of his death. So 
far as I have seen, the name of Thomas Worcester has not appeared in the 
published eulogies of Mr. Webster among the men who encouraged his 
father to give him a collegiate education. Wh}', sir, the last week I visited 
the widow of Mr, Worcester — she is now upwards of eighty years of age, — 
who probably possesses much personal knowledge of Judge Webster's family, 
and with some inklings of gratified pride she told me, sir, that such was the 
fact. Mr. Worcester, with his earnest piety and fervid eloquence, at once 
secured the firm attachment of Judge Webster, as the following incident 
related to me by his widow will show : — 

" The Ecclesiastical Council, convened for the ordination of Mr. Wor- 
cester, demurred a long time, at some of the conditions of his settlement, 
and especially at his not having a collegiate education. The bell had rang, 
and tolled, and tolled again, and the people had become impatient of the 
delay. The Rev. clergy, however, were still pertinaciously engaged in the 
discussion, and there seemed little prospect of a favorable termination. 
At length Judge Webster arose, and with that commanding gravity for 
which he was eminent!}' distinguished, said : ' Gentlemen of the Council, we 
did not invite you hear to make our bargain for us ; we feel competent to 
do that ourselves. We have called this young man to be our minister, and 
he has accepted our call, and we have invited you here to-day to perform 
the services of his ordination ; if you are ready to proceed to that business 
we shall be very thankful ; if not, we have no further use for you.' [Cheers.] 
The debate closed, and the Council immediately proceeded with the services 
of the ordination," Mr. Worcester became the confidential friend and the 
much esteemed pastor of Judge Webster, and by his influence more than 
that of any other man, Daniel Webster was led on, step by step, to obtain 
an education, and prepare himself for that high career of usefulness and 
honorable distinction which he has obtainc.l in the first rank of the states- 
men of our country, and of the orators of the world. Thus not only Mr. 



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Worcester, feeling sensibly the want of the early discipline of a collegiate 
education, diligently sought out the young men of promise in his parish, 
and incited them to seek, but,, by his personal liberality, induced their 
parents to furnish the means for their education. By his influence, encour- 
agement and patronage, during the twentj'-five years of his ministry at 
Salisbury, some twenty from that single town — of whom were Daniel and 
Ezekiel ^Yebstcr, Moses and Nathaniel Sawyer, Moses Eastman and Icha- 
bod Bartlett, were educated at Dartmouth College. [Applause.] 

In this fiimily connection permit me, sir, to mention Dr. Samuel Worces- 
ter, the late revered pastor of the Tabernacle Church in Salem, and the 
originator of the "-JiTst idea " of " The American Board of Commissioners 
for Foreign Missions," or singly sharing that honor with Dr. Spring, of 
Newburyport. Think of the mighty plan involved in that grand concep- 
tion ! It seems a responsive echo to the command of the Saviour, "Go ye 
into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." It opened a 
new era in the history of Christianity. It was the earnest of a brighter 
day to the benighted portions of the globe. True, the beams of that morn- 
ing of faith and hope in the coming triumph of the cross, only gilded 
the pinnacles of the mountains ; they had not yet rested upon the hillsides; 
much less had they penetrated into the valleys. But the gleam on the tops 
of the mountains bore witness to the new light that had dawned upon the 
earth. [Applause.] 

Read, sir. Dr. Worcester's letter, published in the Memoirs of Dr. Jud- 
son, giving an account of the first conception of that wonderful enterprise, 
and ponder the vast and illimitable, the blessed and everlasting results of 
that organization, and you will be proud of him as a son of New Hamp- 
shire, and ready to attest his claim to be crowned among the substantial 
benefactors of humanity. [Applause.] 

Allow me, sir, to add one other name in this constellation of "burning 
and shining lights," that shed their united beams upon the "crystal hills" 
of our native State, and reflect their genial radiance over the destiny of 
the race. I mean Dr. Noah Worcester, the friend of peace, and the author 
of the " Solemn Review of the Custom of War," a work which may justly 
be regarded as the nest-egg of all the Peace Societies which have sprung up 
in the world. This work was republished in England, and translated into 
several languages of modern Europe, and has done more than any single 
publication to revolutionize the sentiments and opinions of the leading 
minds of the age on the subject of War. [Cheers.] 

" Opinion is the queen of the world." And he, sir, does most to pro- 
mote " peace on earth, and good will towards men," who does most to change 
opinion respecting the right and innocence of war, and the duty of peace. 



IQQ NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Let other influences fiivor as they may, the grand decisive influence must 
be traced to him who set in motion that direct action which goes at once to 
the bottom of the subject, and allies the highest truth and sternest motives 
that goA'ern men, in sacred and uncompromising hositility against the evil. 
This did Noah Worcester. lie created the combination ; his followers are 
already legion, and their host daily increases, and will eventually make sure 
the conquest of the world. And in that glorious " consummation so de- 
voutly to be wished," what name will be repeated with heartier gratitude 
or higher eulogy than that of Noah Worcester, the Apostle or Peace — a 
worthy brother of the sons of New Hampshire. [Great applause.] 

The President. I proceed to announce the next regular toast : 

7. New England ! She has unfailing mines in the industry, intelligence and enterprise 
of her people. She has precious stones in the granite of her hills, and the waters which 
glide through her fertile vallies are made to turn out riehor products than were ever 
washed from the sands of the Sacramento. 

Mr. Wilder then said : New Hampshire has had the honor of furnishing 
a President of the United States, but I believe never a Governor for Mas- 
sachusetts ; — we have with us, however, a gentleman who is candidate for 
that office. I call upon our brother, the Hon. Henry Wilson. 



f 0jt. %)mi Milson's Bim\i 



Mr. President and Gentlemen : 

I am very much surprised at the call made upon me to respond to the 
sentiment just announced by the Chair, I have had no intimation from 
any one that I should be called upon to speak a word here to-night. 1 
came not here, sir, to utter my own voice, but to listen to the eloquent 
voices of the distinguished sons of my native State, whom you have invited 
to meet with us on this occasion. I came here to-day, sir, to mingle in thig 
festive scene ; to give to my native State, to the home and scenes of my 
childhood, to the friends and associates of my youthful years, a few moments 
of aflFectionate remembrance. 

Sir, this is an occasion which we who have wandered away from the 
homes, scenes and associations of our native State, shall treasure up in our 
memories during the remainder of our days. This assemblage, here in the 
Commonwealth of our adoption, to pay the tribute of affection, of memory 
and of regret to our native State, is indeed a proud and joyous occasion for 
every son of New Hampshire. [Cheers.] But, sir, this is not an occasion 



MR. WILSON-S SPEECU. Iq-i 

of unalloyed happiness. Memory brings before us the scenes and friends 
of our earlier years. As I turn to the scenes of my early days I think of 
the many friends, of the dear companions of my boyhood, who are scattered 
broadcast over the Union, or who lie beneath the green sods of my native 
State. 

Sir, four years ago we were here to mingle our congratulations too-other. 
^\hat a change have those four brief years made in our ranks, amono- the 
sons of New Hampshire who then assembled here, or who sent letters in 
response to our call to meet with us. The mighty intellect, who presided 
on that glorious occasion — he whose voice thrilled us, as he uttered those 
magnificent words which you, Mr. President, have quoted to-night, has 
passed away. [Sensation.] He sleeps by the deep-sounding sea he loved 
so well. Another distinguished son of New Hampshire, who, more than a 
quarter of a century ago was characterized by Thomas H. Benton, as the 
Rock of the New England Democracy, Levi Woodbury — he, too, has 
passed away. You have referred, sir, to Gen. Dearborn, the closing years 
of whose life were devoted to those arts that beautify and adorn the homes 
of the living and the last resting places of the dead ; he, too, has passed 
from among us. Those aged and venerable men, sons of New Hampshire, 
Governor William Plummer, Governor Samuel Bell, Judge Arthur Liv- 
ERMORE, Cuarles H. Atherton, and Samuel Appleton, have also passed from 
among the living. Recently the grave has closed over Icuabod Bartlett, 
one of the most accomplished lawyers and orators of our native State. 
Miller and McNeill, as brave and gallant soldiers as ever headed a charge 
on this continent or on any other, have fallen before the foe they had so 
often faced on the field of battle. The names of these glorious old heroes 
of our native State should not be forgotten in this assemblage of New Hamp- 
shire men. Gen. Miller, when asked if he '• could storm that battery," 
on the heights of Lundy's Lane, which had nearly annihilated Scott's Brig- 
ade, gave the laconic but modest reply, — " I will try, sir; " and with in- 
flexible resolution he led the 21st Regiment of the sons of New Hampshire 
up the slope of that bloody field, in the face of that terrible battery, and 
turned the fortunes of that bloodiest battle-field of the second war of Inde- 
pendence. [Great applause.] 

I trust, sir, that the sons of New Hampshire, whenever, wherever, and 
however they may be called upon to defend the rights, and maintain the 
honor of the country, or to uphold the great democratic doctrine of the free- 
dom and equality of all men, will respond to the call, in the words of Gen. 
Miller, "I will try, sir," and act with the same resolution he exhibited 
when he carried the heights of Lv^idy's Lane at the points of the bayonets 
of the sons of the Old Granite State. [Cheers.] 
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JQO NEW HAJirSIIIRE FESTIVAL. 

]Mr. President, I give you a sentiment I am sure "will meet a response in 
all our bosoms : 

The memories of Gen. Miller and Gen. McNeill, whose gallant deeds in the second war of 
Independence will ever be cherished with pride by the sons of New Hampshire. 

[Applause.] 

The President. Gentlemen ; I have alluded, in my opening remarks, 
to the removal of some of our distinguished associates, by death, since our 
last Festival. I beg that you will rise and stand in silence, while I announce 
a toast: 

8. The jiemory of otjr departed associates. 

(The company remained standing while this sentiment was read, the band, 
meantime, playing a dirge.) 

The President. Gentlemen ; we have many friends present this evening, 
from whom we hope to hear ; but I dare to proceed no further without 
" the benefit of the clergy." I propose as the next regular toast : 

9. The Clergy ! The pimple religious institutions of our land hold out no bribe to avarice, 
or prize to ambition. But we give the sincere respect and affections of our hearts to the 
devoted pastors of our churches. 

The Rev. Mr. Miner was called upon to respond. 



AVhen one has ended, or is about to end his mortal career, it is according 
to the common custom to call upon the clergy. I would venture to hope, 
however, that it is not the approaching end of this Festival which has given 
rise to the sentiment just announced. I would hope that there are many 
yet to speak to you, and that you will be alive to hear. As I have looked 
upon the seething sea of emotion that has swelled around us to-night, it has 
seemed to me that we ought to have been fire-lorn ; and I should not be 
surprised if Mount Washington itself should at length burst forth a very 
^tna or Vesuvius. However cold our mountain home may look, it is certain 
that her granite ribs enclose a warm and loving heart. [Cheers.] 

As sons of New Hampshire, we turn back to our venerated mother a'- 
our ancestral homes, and confess, every one of us, to a tender place in our 
hearts when these great names are mentioned in our ears. I recollect when 
an Irishman, thriving and well to do in this new world, was asked how he 
liked, answered, " Oh, there are blessed hearts here ; but the ould counthry 
is the best ! " We have gone out from our homes, brothers, and I trust 
have found ourselves comfortable in the world ; but we still feel that the 



Mli. MINEIl'S SPEECU. -ir^rt 

"ould counthry is tlie best." There are tenderer ties and holier associations 
connected with our early home than with any other spot that God permits 
his sun to smile upon. There is the same old farm-house, hastening, indeed, 
to its ruin ; the same good old fire glows upon the ample hearthstone ; the 
same well-thumbed family Bible lies as ever upon the altar ; the same old 
" oaken bucket hangs in the well ; " the same old tree waves its branches 
over the dwelling ; the same mountain rears its head behind it ; the same 
meadow and lawn stretches out before it ; aye, and happy are those of us 
who find the same pai-eutal faces, wrinkled though they be, smiling within. 
How, with joy -beaming eyes do they greet our frequent return, and give us a 
cheering blessing and benediction, for which Ave search the world elsewhere 
'" vain. [Applause.] 

Mr. President, as I think of ourselves, wanderers from home, I can but 
join in a sentiment of regret for the mother State. Her soil is sterile. She 
has little of sea-coast. Her rivers are not navigable. She has but a limited 
home market. She labors under difficulties not alone in getting knowledge. 
She has, it is true, many distinguished sons at home filling places of re- 
sponsibility and usefulness in her institutions of learning, in the pulpit, at 
the bar, in the workshop and manufactory, and among the noble tillers of 
the soil. [Applause.] Though a large portion of the vigor and ambition 
of the State goes out elsewhere to toil, leaving an air of desolation behind, 
there is yet sun-light and joy in all her borders. No wonder that parental 
hearts are yearning after us as we go. Our brothers and sisters look upon 
our absence with regret, but upon our prosperity with joy. Aye, to-night 
they arc here in spirit, rejoicing in these festivities. [Applause.] 

]Jut we remembered, brothers, that it is not pleasant to wander alone. 
"When Fredkika Ijkemer was in this country some years ago, while travel- 
ling in our native State, she chanced to meet a laborer sitting alone, and 
bearing manifest evidence of toil and fatigue. AYith true Yankee freedom, 
after various other questions, she asked him if he was married. He said, 
" No ; I have thought it not best to marry yet." The question, however, 
touched a new place in his heart, and he did just what you and I would 
have done under the same circumstances. He asked her if she was mar- 
ried. She said, " No ; she had thought the same, that it was not best to 
marry yet," and bade him " good bye." Scarcely had she gone when the 
good fellow bethought himself that this might prove the golden opportunity 
of his life. Acting suddenly upon the thought, he started after her, and 
overtaking her, he asked if she did not think it bad to be travelling alone 
in a strange country. She answered, " I am not alone." "]>ut would it 
not be well to have some one to help you, and look after your trunks ? " 
» Aye," said she, " I am not alone." I trust we have all borne with us the 



]^Q^ NEW UAMPSIIIKE FESTIVAL. 

holy companionsliip to Tvhicli Miss Bremer referred. Uut not a few of us 
have done more. Going out into the world, and entering its various path- 
ways of usefulness and enterprise, as New Hampshire boys we have been 
careful to take New Hampi^hire girls along with us. And for myself I must 
confess that but for their blest society and sympathy thus secured, life 
would have been comparatively desolate. [Cheers.] 

I feel proud, Mr. President, whenever my thought recurs to our beloved 
country, the mother of us all, blest with institutions of unrivalled excel- 
lence ; possessing ahnost every variety of climate and productions ; rich 
in the rarest gems among the natural curiosities of the world — towering 
mountains, ocean-like lakes, majestic rivers, magnificent waterfalls, bound- 
less prairies, and mammoth caves; and in her ample dimensions, bathing 
her feet in the warm waters of the gulf, stretching her hands fi-om ocean to 
ocean, and pillowing her head upon the cool heights of New Plampshire. 
And what a head is that ! The scene before me is but a few among the 
many eyes with which she is looking upon the world's enterprises. How 
marked are the developments of that head ! What a treasure for a phre- 
nologist! Mount Washington, Mount Jefferson, Mount Adams — what a 
delight for the man of science to mount the locomotive and make his way 
through the sinuosities of this huge cranium, and manipulate its bumps 
with as much facility as, in the ordinary way, he could examine the bumps 
of common heads. There are unmistakable marks of genius. Why, sir, 
as I sit here and listen to the eulogies pronounced upon one great name 
after another, attributing to each deeds and achievements scarcely sur- 
passed in the annals of the race, I do not wonder. The bumps indicate 
it all. [Applause.] 

But, Mr. President, I came near forgetting, in my joy that I am a son of 
New Hampshire, that I was called to respond to a sentiment in honor of 
the clergy. The clergy, sir, deserve to be spoken of as the promoters of 
social order and of the general good, no less than as the promoters of our 
spiritual welfare. Indeed, sir, if the full history of our revolutionary 
struggle were written, we should find the clergy of New Hampshire taking 
no unimportant part therein. When the war broke out, hesitating not at 
the personal sacrifices it would cost them, they bade their parishioners go 
forth to the conflict. They strengthened the hearts of the wives and daugh- 
ters to relinquish the society of husbands, brothers and sons, that those who 
should come after them might enjoy the inestimable blessings of civil ana 
social freedom. 

Nor did those clergymen hesitate, with hoe and axe, and scythe in hand, 
to do the farmer's work and obtain their salaries from the soil itself. Their 
labors, sir, were no less effective because they were unostentatious. In the 



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line of quiet effort, in the discussion of the principles of liberty, in the 
emboldening of the hearts of the sons of Xew Hampshire, by the impera- 
tive commands of conscience, they served well their State, and through that 
their common country and the world. [Cheers.] 

1 might detain you, Mr. Chairman, did the time properly allotted me 
permit, to recite somewhat the labors of the clei-gy of New Hampshire in 
their more appropriate and peculiar sphere — to speak of the lustre of their 
talents and of their theological achievements ; and to mention names, confined 
exclusively to no sect or creed, which have conferred honor upon the Chris- 
tian institutions of the State, and won respect for the official positions they 
have held. 

Nor has that talent been confined to the State. The sous of New Hamp- 
shire, as has been intimated here to-night, are found elsewhere. They are 
abroad. They have filled, and are filling the pulpits of other States, and I 
trust with usefulness and honor. I will take the liberty of mentioning one 
clergyman, who was a native of New Hampshire; a man born and nurtured 
in poverty, who was not permitted to enjoy even the blessings of a com- 
mon school education ; whose earliest attainments were by the light of a 
pine knot, and whose first efforts at penmanship were upon the bark of the 
birch tree ; a man who made his way unaided from the theology in which he 
was born to one infinitely more generous, and who filled one of the pulpits 
of our city for thirty-five years ; a man who has done more to change the 
theology of New England than any other person ; whose genius enabled 
him, with every word as it were, to lay bare the heart of some old error, 
and has given us to-night a clearer consciousness of our common brother- 
hood ; who was listened to with rapture by crowded assemblies, whether in 
town or country, to the very day of his death ; and who, at the advanced 
age of four score and one, rested from his labors. The name of Hosea 
Ballou, self-made, under God, as he was, is worthy to be mentioned among 
the most honored of the sons of New Hampshire. He, too, sleeps with his 
fathers. 

"Thui?, star by star declines, 
Till all are passed away; 
As morniDghigh and liigher shines, 
To pure and perfect day. 
Nor sink those stars in empty night; 
They hide themselves in heaven's own light." 

[Great applause.] 
Mr. President ; allow me to close with a brief sentiment. I give you : 

The Theology of our day — If less prim in its gait than formerly, it has a no less living 
heart. 



106 NEW nAMPSIIIRE FESTIVAL. 

TuE Peesident. Gentlemen, the allusion made by our Keverend Brother 
who just addressed you, brings to my mind a sentiment, prepared for this 
occasion, and which I will now submit : 

10. The Daughters of New Hampshire ! Their cheering smiles of approbation arc never 
wanting to reward her Sons for whatever they may exhibit of enterprise, genius, generous 
principle, and enduring fortitude. " We rise up and call them blessed." 

The President. It affords me pleasure to state that we have with us 
this evening a gentleman who has come all the way from the city of Detroit, 
to attend this Festival, a son of New Hampshire. I am not quite sure 
whether he has been Governor of Michigan, but I am very certain he has 
been a candidate for that office. 

I introduce to you, gentlemen. The Hon. Mr. Chandler, Ex-Mayor of 
the city of Detroit. 

fan. %m\m$ dHuuMcr's .^^tcclr. 

Mr. President: 

When you did me the honor to request me to respond to this sentiment, 
I told you that I preferred not to do so; and threw the subject from my 
mind, supposing I should not be called upon. But, sir, any man who could 
not respond to that sentiment is no true son of New Hampshire. [Cheers.] 

I, sir, have been a long time a wanderer from the land of my nativity ; 
and when ^-ou proposed to me to respond to that toast, you forgot that I 
have been away so long, that there was scarce a woman in New Hampshire, 
below the age of three score years, that would acknowledge any acquaint- 
ance with me, that is, if New Hampshire ladies are like other ladies. 

But, Mr. President, although I am not prepared to respond for the 
younger members of the fraternity of sisters in New Hampshire, I know 
something of the grand-mothers of that State. I know something of those 
venerable matrons, who, when Stark was called to the field of Bennington, 
when the country needed the services of the whole population, turned out 
their brothers, husbands, fathers, en masse, for that bloody field ; and them- 
selves reaped the harvests, all along the valley of the Merrimac. [Great 
applause.] 

Why, sir, a maternal ancestor of mine told me she could reap an acre of 
rye a day herself. 

Now, Mr. President, the women that I Icnew were " strong-minded wo- 
men ; " and yet I have not, with the closest possible scrutiny, been able to 
discover the slightest resemblance between them and your " strong-minded," 
pantaloons-wearing," •' woman's-rights convention," " would-be-congress-wo- 



Jin. CUANDLER'S SPEECH. 1 /v*. 

men," and, for aught I know, President of the United States. [Lauf^hter 
and applause,] for those " strong-minded women " would come up to the 
work ; and I do not know but I might vote for one of them for Contrress. 
I think a few of such good old women in the halls of Congress would '^rcatlv 
improve it. [Cheers.] 

Mr. President, if I were a Dr. of Divinity, or even a simple Piev. I 
should preach the sons of New Hampshire here present a short sermon 
from a short text ; and all in honor of those good old grand-mothers of New 
Hampshire. My text, sir, would be, "There were giants in those days."' 
[Prolonged cheers.] 

I should take you, sir, away back in the vista of years to the time when 
the principles of political and religious liberty were but a myth, an 
abstraction; and I should show you, sir, that these principles of civil and 
religious liberty were first put forth by the sons of New Hampshire, and 
that they first pledged their lives and sacred honors to the maintenance of 
the.se principles; and I should state to you, sir, that there were "giants in 
those days." I should come along down a little further, in the bluest 
times that came over us during our revolutionary struggle, when the ene- 
mies of the country were victorious in all quarters, and its friends began 
to cool, and look upon all as hopeless. Then I should point you to the 
gallant Stark, and those glorious " Green Mountain Boys," (whom our little 
sister, Vermont, claims, but there was not a "mother's son" of them that 
belonged to her.) whom he called forth and brought to his standard; and I 
should say " there were giants in those days." And I should come alonr 
down a little further on the stream of time, when the Constitution of our 
country was in danger — when we required great and noble men to stand 
in its defence ; and point you to Daniel Webster, and Jeremiah Mason, 
and IciiABOD Bartlett, and Lewis Cass, and a host of other sons of New 
Hampshire, — I cannot stop to enumerate them — and I should say " there 
were giants in those days." [Applause.] 

And, sir, is this race of " giants " extinct ? [Cries of No, No.] It is 
not, perhaps, proper to say of the living what we would of the dead. I 
have mentioned but one, in every instance, out of the hosts of "giants" 
that existed in those days. I could point you to a citizen of Michigan, 
whom New Hampshire claims. Gen. Lewis Cass. I could point you to 
Chief Justice Parker, to Levi Woodbury, and others in all the profes- 
sions, and could declare " that there were giants in those days." 

I care not if the State of New Hampshire furnishes us with a race of 
pigmies for the next ten centuries ; so long as she can point to a Webster, 
a Mason, and a Cass, and a host of other names that fill her history's pages 
with glory, so long will her memory be embalmed. Our children's children 



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will exult in the enumeration of those names. The gentleman upon my right 
(Mayor Seaver) stated that the West owed New Hampshire a debt of grati- 
tude. Now that is all true, every word of it ; and furthermore, I want to 
assure you that the debt is good for a hundred cents on the dollar, principal 
and interest. I do not know what the rate of interest may be to-day in 
State street, but some of my friends, I dare say, have taken a feeling sense 
of that. [Applause.] 

In conclusion, let me give you the name of a man who has shed houoron 
New Hampshire — a man upon whom New Hampshire and IMichigan can 
both unite. I give you — 

" Lewis Cass of Xcw Ilampsliirc and Michigan." 

The Chair announced the eleventh regular toast : 

11. The Homes of our Cltildhood f Fresh in our memories, and hallowed in our affections. 



'§mm f annicl 6rcclc'5 Bim\, 

Mr. President: 

As the sons of New Hampshire, resident in Boston, have spoken so justly 
and so eloquently through the Chair, I think 1 might be permitted to re- 
main silent on this occasion. Should I attempt to make a speech, I fear I 
might mar, I certainly could not hope to amend what has fallen from your 
lips. 

But as I am up, I cannot forbear uniting with you in tendering to our 
brethren who have come to us from the verdant vallics and the sunny hills 
of the Granite State, our sympathies, our congratulations, and our kind re- 
gards. You have fed our bodies with the rich products of your fertile soil. 
As you have come to ixs from fields waving with the golden harvests of 
autumn, I rejoice to find that you have brought with you a rich harvest 
home of thoughts, ideas and sentiments, for the entertainment and refresh- 
ment of our minds and hearts. [Applause.] 

I am no stranger to your homes, nor to the inmates of those happy hom' 
I therefore venture the assertion, that no State in the Union can e^ .^it 
more picturesque and sublime scenery, or a race of men more hardy, intelli- 
gent, thrifty, and well principled, and a race of women more beautiful and 
accomplished, than can be found in New Hampshire. [Cheers.] I wish 
tliese dear sisters were here this evening. I am sure they are in our hearts, 
though they are not in this hall. I hope we shall make amends for the 
ungallant omission when we meet again. With such loving companions as 



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these, well may you, my friends, adopt the language of the Psalmist, and 
say : " Verily the lines have fallen to us in pleasant places, and we have a 
goodly heritage." [Laughter.] 

There is something inspiring in the very air which mantles your hills, and 
curls into wavelets the peaceful waters of your beautiful lakes. Dull and 
unimaginative as I am, even I have often felt the divinity stir within mo, 
while gazing on scenes like those. But when I endeavored to express the 
emotions of my heart in poetic numbers, alas, the rhythm and the measure 
at my bidding would not come. " A poet," as the classic adage says, 
"must be born, but cannot be made." Had I a tithe of the genius of some 
of your favored sons and daughters, your hills and your valleys, your lakes 
and your rivers, should become vocal with pious hymns and patriotic song. 
Those glorious scenes were not made solely for the utilitarian purpose of 
raising herds of cattle, and flocks of sheep, and of turning the water-wheels 
of your factories. As man was not made solely to till the earth, and live 
on its productions, I trust that those sublime and beautiful objects, the 
lakes which mirror the blue heavens above us, and the hills that catch and 
reflect the glories of the rising and setting sun, will speak to your hearts of 
the wisdom, the power and the goodness of that Almighty Being who formed 
the heavens and the earth, and fitted them to lead your minds " from 
Nature up to Nature's God. " 

When the solstitial heat of summer compels us, who have been enclosed 
for months within the brick walls of the city, to seek the cooling retreats 
of the country, I delight to revisit niy native hills, to drink from the " old 
oaken bucket " the refreshing beverage which father Adam — peace to his 
memory and his ashes — [laughter and cheers] drank in paradise nearly six 
thousand years ago, which, for aught I know, is as good now as it was then ; 
and which ir? more exhilarating than the contents of the wine cup at an 
aldermanic feast. I delight to join the fireside circle at the close of the day, 
as the good old patriarch, unclasping the family Bible, reads aloud from the 
oracles of God, and then en bended knees commends the inmates of the 
household to the mercy and protection of Heaven. I love on the Sabbath 
morning to ascend, with fellow-worshippers, the lofty eminence on which 
was erected, many years ago, the old meeting house, rendered venerable and 
sacred by the prayers and the praises of successive generations of saints. I 
love to worship in this time-honored sanctuary, for it seems high enough to 
be the uppermost round in Jacob's ladder, connecting earth with heaven 

But to pass somewhat abruptly from grave to gay — t^iere are other 
scenes in my native State on which memory delights to dwell. I always 
have loved, I still do love, the merry meetings of the boys and the girls of 
New Hampshire. Who would not like to join in a husking frolic, as in 

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olden times, and share in the privilege and the pleasure always awarded to 
the lucky fellow who should have the good fortune no find a red ear, which, 
as you well know, is typical and suggestive of ruby lips and rosy cheeks, 
and which gave license to salute the favorite fair one with a gentle kiss. 
[Laughter.] 

The contra-dances live in my memory and practice too. I have found 
such music as Hull's Victory, the White Cockade and Fisher's Hornpipe, 
especially when connected with the movements of the light fantastic toe, in 
a spacious hall, to be an excellent specific for taking the frosts of many 
winters out of one's stiffened limbs, and making him feel young again. Such 
good old dances as those are healthy, and not of immoral tendency. Can 
the same be said of your detestable polkas and waltzes, in which men make 
fools of themselves and whirligigs of their partners? [Cheers.] 

Before closing my remarks, I take leave to address some of the agricul- 
tural friends of my native State. It has become quite a common thing in 
many parts of the country for the strong and enterprising to emigrate to 
California in quest of gold. Let me advise you to do no such thing. Don't 
quit the fair region of your birth for that land of rich promise, but of poor 
performance. If you are temperate and industrious, you will, in the long 
run, find more wealth in your autumnal harvests, and in your verdant fields, 
covered with fleet horses, with lowing herds, and with fleecy flocks, than in 
the quartz boulders and the gold diggings of Oregon and California. If 
you happen to be single, and wish to marry, as all sensible men do. you 
will find young women of graceful forms, handsome features, cultivated 
minds, agreeable manners, and of good principles too, in the farm-houses of 
your native State, who might be willing to wed, provided — mind the pro- 
viso, — you were to offer them, with your hands and your hearts, indus- 
trious habits and good characters, in exchange for their warm affections. 
Marry such if you can, and raise up families which shall beautify and bless 
your ancestral homes. [Applause.] 

Should your tastes or your talents lead any of you to this metropolis of 
New England, we promise you our sympathy and support. Some who hav 
left their homes among the hills of New Hampshire as farmers' boys, h 
accumulated riches, and died merchant princes in Boston. Should t' 
your good fortune, I trust you will devote a portion of your wealth to the 
charitable and literary institutions of your native and of your adopted 
State. Your names, then, like the name of our beloved and honored Apple- 
ton, will become enshrined in the memories and the affections of those whom 
you have blessed. Your deeds will be your monuments, more enduring 
than the granite of your native hills. [Ap^^lausc] 



MR. FRENCH'S SPEECH, 



III 



The President. It is a matter of groat gratiSeation that we arc bonore'l, 
this evening, with the company of so many sons of New Hampshire who 
occupy eminent positions in society, and from whom we should be happy to 
hear did the time permit. But I shall be obliged for the present to call alter- 
nately on g.'ntlcmen of this city and our friends from other States. The 
next sentiment will be : 

12. Phillips Academy — An institutiou from which have been taken some of the brightest 
gems that adorn and bless our country. Long ma}' it continue to wear the laurels of its 
well-earned reputation. 

I call upon Henry F. French, Esq., of Exeter, to respond. 

Mr. President : 

It is almost impossible, at this late hour of the evening, when the sub- 
ject of the ladies has already been before the audience, and when the minds 
of all " good men and true" are constantly turned in that direction, to 
go back and talk about matters of literature and science. When you gave 
the sentiment which was responded to by our friend from Michigan, I almost 
wished that I might be permitted to respond to it also. That gentleman 
talks like an antediluvian, and yet has not a gray hair in his head. He talks 
about being acquainted with our mothers and great grand-mothers : but you 
and I, Mr. President, though our heads are a little frost-sprinkled, can 
boast that we know some ladies of this generation, and that we can go into 
New Hampshire or Massachusetts, and find young and blooming faces ever 
ready to greet us. I feel, sir, coming from old Exeter, as if I were almost 
called upon to say something in behalf of the daughters of New Hamp- 
shire. Here are fifteen hundred of the sons ; and there ought to be fifteen 
hundred of the daughters next their hearts. [Applause.] Gentleman, it 
has been said, that one reason why they are not here, is, that there is not a 
hall in Boston large enough to hold the company, if each of us brought a 
lady. But for one I should be willing, for the sake of the society, to sit a 
great deal closer. [Cheers.] I do not know but I should be willing to be 
squeezed into half the space occupied here, if I could have, instead of my 
respectable friend here, a handsome lady by my side. An Exeter man has 
a peculiar reason to look after the interests of the ladies, and be mindful of 
them ; and why ? Because connected with the history of the colony which 
was commenced at Exeter, is a peculiar circumstance, which has not been 
alluded to here, but which ought not to be forgotten. The leading spirit of 
the settlement at Exeter was a woman — a noble-hearted, learned, accom- 
plished and modest woman — bearing a name not very common on modern 



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lips, but a name famous in history. That woman was Ann Hgtchinson. 
As this is a time for renewing historical recollections, let me allude briefly 
to the circumstances connected with her and the settlement of our town. 
To her we are chiefly indebted for the settlement of Exeter ; and I think it 
will be readily admitted by all, that we have been greatly indebted to the 
same gentle sex for the continuation of that settlement to the present time. 
[Great applause.] It has been said here by some gentleman that the main 
business of New Hampshire is to raise men ; and I should like to know if 
that is a business which has been conducted by the "lords of creation" 
without the assistance and afiectionate sympathy of others ? [Cheers.] 

In 1629, John Wheelright and others bought a tract of land, of which 
Exeter is a part, of Passaconaway and others of the Indian Sagamores. 
They paid them in something better than bank bills; in blankets, and coats, 
and kettles, and took the famous deed which is on registry in our County of 
Rockingham. John Wheelright was a brother of Ann Hutchinson, and 
was a learned and pious preacher in Braintroc. He was of the sect known 
as the Antinomians, and so was Ann Hutchinson, and she was the leader of 
that sect in the Massachusetts colony. She was one of the "giants ia 
those days," of which my friend has spoken ; for she stood forth a whole 
century before her time, claiming for all the largest liberty, both civil and 
religious. The word Antinomian signifies literally, I believe, "an opposer 
of law." They adopted the name with pride, as denoting their belief in the 
doctrine of salvation by faith, and not by works of the laio, while their 
enemies applied it to them in derision, as opposers of the laws of the land. 

Ann Hutchinson, supported by her brother, and encouraged by Sir Henry 
Vane, the Governor of the colony, taught doctrines which where at war with 
those of the established clergy of the times. She claimed, with Descartes, 
that "the conscious judgment of the mind is the highest authority to itself." 
Her doctrines were similar in many points to the Quakers. She advocated 
the most absolute freedom of mind in religous belief, and the supremacy of 
conscience above human law, She believed in " the inner light, " what per- 
haps might now be called " the higher law," and claimed the spirit of Gof" 
as the constant companion of man. 

It may at times be called heresy, but I believe it is a principle of ^ 
religious sect now, that a plain law of God is never to be transgressed. 
That was the doctrine of the " giants in those days," among whom where 
Ann Hutchinson and John Wheelright. In this goodly city of Boston, 
where the Puritans lived, there was no such thing as religious toleration as 
we esteem it now-a-days. The doctrine then was, to tolerate what was right, 
and nothing else. The Bible was the right, and the clergy were to decide 
what the Bible was; and so they controlled all civil and religious matters. 



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Ann Hutchinson went about and prcaclied civil and religious freedom; the 
largest liberty to every man. This Autinomian controversy sprung up, and 
it came to be a political question, and the Antinomian party was voted down. 
Finally, Ann Hutchinson and John Wheelright, and a few others of the 
leading spirits were exiled from Massachusetts colony, "because they were 
unfit for the society of its citizens ; " and in 1G38, they removed to the banks 
of the Piscataqua, to the land purchased by Wheelright of the Indians ; 
and in the beautiful language of Bancroft, " at the head of the tide waters, 
on that stream, they founded the town of Exeter, one more little republic 
in the wilderness, organized on the principles of natural justice, by the vol- 
untary combination of the inhabitants." [Cheers.] 

There they established the very first church ever assembled in New Hamp- 
shire, and the very first goverment, too, worthy of the name. They 
recognized the right of every man to have a voice in the election of civil 
officers, and made the people subject to no laws, except such as they them- 
selves enacted. No such restriction of the right of voting and holding 
oftices, to church-members alone, as was provided in Massachusetts, was 
adopted there. In short, their civil organization was, as nearly as possible, 
a pure democracy, and in religious sentiment, perfect toleration ; " the 
largest liberty " was their principle. [Applause.] 

When we consider that nowhere else, in the new world or the old, there 
existed then any true religious toleration, the liberal course of the Antino- 
mians seems truly remarkable. The Rev. Mr. Ward, who preached at 
Agawam, now Ipswich, expressed pretty strongly the popular idea upon 
this subject. " He that is willing to tolerate any unsound opinion that his 
own may be tolerated, though never so sound, will for a need hang God's 
Bible at the devil's girdle. It is said that man ought to have liberty of 
conscience, and that it is persecution to bar them of it. I can rather stand 
amazed, than reply to this ; it is an astonishment that the brains of men 
should be parboiled in such impious ignorance." 

And yet in the very days of such intolerance, the noble spirits who led 
in the settlement at the falls of the Squamscot, two hundred years ago, 
maintained the same liberal views of the rights of conscience of which the 
present generation boasts. 

The fiist settlement of Exeter, then, was mainly for the enjoyment of 
religious and civil liberty ; and in this, as has been said already, this settle- 
ment was peculiar. Subsequent history shows that the inhabitants never 
abandoned their principles ; for we find that when, a few years later, the 
Colony of New Hampshire united with Massachusetts,, there was this re- 
markable provision expressed in the compact ; that citizens of New Hamp- 
shire might vote and be eligible to seats in the General Assembly, though 
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they were not members of the church, while none but church-members in 
Massachusetts could aspire to such privileges. 

We claim for the settlement of Exeter a higher motive than actuated 
those who commenced the other settlements in New Hampshire. The ear- 
liest settlements in New Hampshire where at Portsmouth and Dover, in 
1623, but they were for other objects than the enjoyment of liberty, either 
civil or religious. " The Company of Laconia," consisting chiefly of mer- 
chants of London, fitted out two companies for the establishment of a colony 
and fisheries at the mouth of the Piscataqua. Belknap gives us some idea 
of the quality of these pioneers in the new country. He says that. they 
sent over David Thompson, a Scotchman, and Edward and William Hil- 
ton, fishmongers of Lc.idon, with a number of other people. One company 
landed at Little Harbor, below Portsmouth, and there set up saltworks, and 
the other went further up, and established themselves at a place called 
Northam, now Dover, N. H. The main employments of both companies 
were fishing and trading. No such transcendental notions as Antinomian- 
ism, or Inner Light, disturbed their business operations. Our Portsmouth 
friends who are present will not be offended at the suggestion that there is 
a slight "ancient and fishlike" savor of their early history in their frequent 
boast, at the present day, that they have the best fish-market in the country, 
at their spring market. [Applause.] 

Hampton, the other of the four original settlements, was settled in 1G36, 
by a colony from Massachusetts, by authority of the General Court, chiefly 
for the valuable salt marshes there. It was claimed as a colony, and was 
for a long time under the jurisdiction of the laws of Massachusetts. 

History will justify us in boasting somewhat of old Exeter. We find 
her people ever ready to resist oppression, in every form ; and the spirit of 
Ann Hutchinson still alive among her women. In 1683, when the royal 
governor, Cranfield, undertook to impose taxes on the people of New Hamp- 
shire without their consent, at Exeter, his oflicers, who were sent to collect 
the tax, were beaten off with clubs by the men, and attacked by the women, 
with true Antinomian spirit, with boiling water, whenever they attemr \j 
to enter their houses. [Cheers.] We have had the same fearless 
there, ever since. The descendants of the same John Sulliva' ^.icady 
named, who — when Paul Revere, of Boston, carried news to the New 
Hampshire Colony, in 1774, that an order to prevent the exportation of 
gunpowder to the colonies, had been passed by the King in council — raised 
a company, and with John Langdon, captured Fort William and Mary, and 
carried away her military stores, have always to this day maintained in our 
midst the credit of their ancestor. The blood of the same Nicholas G ilman, 
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of tlie sons of Exeter who bear his name. The home of Lewis Cass, a 
noble-heai ted, liberty-loving man, the house where he was born, is still 
pointed out, in a retired street of our town; and General Deaubokn, 
whose name has been named with honor here to-night, if I mistake not. had 
also his birth-place among us. [Applause.] 

I feel proud, sir, to be announced as coming from Eseter, and proud to 
be called on, though as you, at least, well know, without notice, to respond 
to the sentiment proposed. Chief among the means of maintaining the 
hiti-h rank of our town, in the esteem of the learned and great men of our 
land, has been the Phillips Academy, an institution which for more than 
seventy years has stood resplendent above all others below the rank of col- 
leges in New England. That academy has done more for the training of 
the great minds which have swayed the opinions, if not the destinies of our 
country, than any other institution of its class. At the Abbot Festival, in 
1838, if I recollect aright, it was stated that under the tuition of that 
learned and good man, Doct. Abbot, during the fifty years in which he was 
Principal of the Academy, more than three hundred and fifty young men, 
who afterwards were graduated at colleges, pursued their preparatory studies. 
To that institution Massachusetts, and especially Boston, owes a debt of 
gratitude, for the education of her great men, which, as has been said on 
another topic this evening, " she is ready at all times to acknowledge." 
[Cheers.] 

The Saltonstalls, and Peabodts, and Buckminstees, names dear to the 
hearts of so many here present, and Sparks, whose fame is over all the 
earth, and he who so recently presided over the principal university of Mas- 
sachusetts — all these men have been proud to acknowledge their obligations 
to the good influences of their early training at Eseter. The Everetts, 
too, both, I think, pupils, and one a teacher there, have often borne public 
testimony in word, as well as brilliant life, to the value of their connection 
with that school of great men ; Daniel Webster, whose name, however 
often repeated among us, awakens anew our admiration — Daniel Webster, 
at the festival which I have named, — a rciinion of the pupils of the school 
with their teacher, — presided over the ceremonies, and expressed in heart- 
felt language his grateful sense of the value of his connection as a student 
with the Phillips ExeJLer Academy. 

Mr. President, allow me to close my remarks by referring once more to 
the subject with which I commenced, and proposing a sentiment which has, 
in substance, been given before : 

The Daughters of New Hampshire — Absent, but not forgotten. 

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The President. There are so many speeches and poems prepared by 
various gentlemen for this occasion, that it will be utterly impracticable to 
read the volunteer toasts this evening. I will therefore thank gentlemen to 
send them up to the Chair, and they shall be carefully preserved, and pub- 
lished with the proceedings of the festival. 

I now take the liberty of calling for a sentiment from a son of New 
Hampshire, now present, who has distinguished himself as a traveller. 
Probably no one from New Hampshire, or any other State, has explored 
Asia, Africa and Europe, more extensively than Dr. J. V. C. Smith, of 
Boston. 

gr, |. ^, €, SmiV$ S^cctl]. 

Mr. President : 

It is rather embarrassing to rise before such a multitude, after so many 
gentlemen of eminence have spoken, and quite exhausted all ordinary topics 
of social interest. However, like the lame man who enlisted into the Grecian 
army, when he saw that the soldiers laughed at the idea that a person in 
his condition should enter the ranks, he exclaimed, " Why do you laugh ? 
I came to fight, not to run." [Cheers.] 

You have alluded to the circumstance, that I have been a traveller. 
True it is, sir, the wildest aspirations of boyhood, formed while residing in 
a humble and sequestered home in the country, have been gratified ; but no 
place that has fallen under my observation, is to be compared to the granite 
peaks seen in my childhood. The inhabitants of mountainous regions love 
liberty, and cherish, with undying zeal, the freedom that belongs to wild 
scenery, often the haunts of wild animals, ranging through the forests, and 
over the gorges of Alpine formations. This trait of human character is 
forcibly illustrated by the Circassians, who have been battling for the 
maintenance of their ancient privileges, through many long years of unin- 
terrupted warfare against the invading Russians. Unsubdued, and bol ^r 
than ever in the midst of their national misfortunes, they still fight or % 
undiminished resolution to die rather than relinquish privilege -.3 

terrific abodes of their ancestors, among the mighty mountains of their yet 
unconquered Circassia. [Applause.] 

So it is with the Druses, in the deep glens, and on the lofty summits of 
the mountains of Lebanon. From immemorial time, the race has been 
there ; nor can Turkey, with all its resources, dispossess them of their much- 
loved residence near the clouds, in the clear atmosphere of which they draw 
tbeir vitality and indomitable energy in the defence of their liberty. Since 
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institutions, and romantic domiciles, amid the everlasting rocks,' have been 
menaced by their old political enemies, the Turks ; but, as on all former 
occasions, they still boldly resist, and nobly defy every power that presumes 
to interfere with the privileges that belong to their birthright in the abodes 
of the eagle. [Cheers.] 

Thus it is with the sons of New Hampshire ; go where they may, with a 
fondness that cannot be described, they still turn back to the rough, but 
healthful localities of their youth, and love them still, through every period 
of life. Beyond all doubt, the heroic possessors of Mount Lebanon, are the 
lineal descendants of the ancient people whom the Jews could not drive out 
of the land or subdue. 

In the course of my travels, I have been gratified with a sight of most of 
the crowned heads of Europe; and still further off. Pachas, Sheiks, and, in 
fact, with most of the marked men of those countries ; but they do not 
compare with the great men of America, nor the renowned men of New 
Hampshire. [Applause.] Those abroad were principally born to their 
positions, while ours were the architects of their own fame. There is not a 
spot in the ordinary route of travellers on the four continents, where the 
name of Daniel Webster is not known. [Sensation.] They have heard of 
him all over Asia; and on the burning sands of the desert of Arabia the 
breezes have wafted it along, till it has reached the ears of the wanderers 
over the trackless waste, indistinct though it may be, but still it is recog- 
nised as that of the intellectual giant of the new world. 

A gentleman observed to me the other day, that he objected to these 
kind of festivities ; it was too clani.sh, altogether clanish. " Those New 
Hampshire fellows come down here to Boston barefooted, get rich, and club 
together for a feast. I don't like it at all." 

It was admitted that they came here poor, and often barefoot, but it was 
their misfortune, not their fault, to be in that condition. They would have 
worn shoes if they had had them. [Applause.] He evidently could not 
appreciate the fraternal feeling that actuates us in assembling together in 
this joyful manner, to compare notes, look each other in the face, to mark 
the changes that have been effected in our personal appearance and worldly 
circumstances since arriving in the metropolis of Massachusetts. New 
Hampshire emigrants are producers. They endeavor to add to the common 
stock of human comforts. We came here with our only inheritance, good 
constitutions and willing hearts, to use our hands and heads. [Cheers.] 
Our feet never moved a treadmill. There is not a son of New Hampshire 
disgraced by being a resident of any institution for paupers or vagrants, to 
my knowledge, in the city of Boston. [Applause.] 

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contemplate the shipping ; the colossal warehouses ; the vast manufacturing 
establishments in various parts of Boston, in which the sons of New Hamp- 
shire are the owners, in respectable numbers. Who reside in edifices in the 
city of Boston, more nearly resembling palaces, than some of the sons of 
New Hampshire ? The bar, the pulpit, the medical profession, the press, 
and, indeed, every department of industrial life, in this, and the neighbor- 
ing towns, is strongly and honorably represented by our native State. Who 
recently represented Boston in the Congress of the United States ? The 
answer says, a son of New Hampshire, Hon. Nathan Appleton. [Cheers.] 

These walls are adorned by magnificent specimens of the artistic genius 
of the sons of New Hampshire. The beautiful historical picture of the 
battle of Bunker Hill, under the canopy of flags, the property of a native 
of New Hampshire, was executed by Pratt, a native of the State. Two 
heads of the immortal and illustrious defender of the Constitution, together 
with that of the President of the United States, which are to transmit to 
future ages the exact feature and expression of Daniel Webster, and 
those of the President of the United States, are by Ames and Willard. 
These are names familiar to cultivated society, and they will go down to 
posterity with the glory that belongs to the divine art of painting. 

Accompanying the simple, but graphic illustrations of the kinds of industry 
in which we have embarked, indicative of our readiness to do with all our 
might whatever we can find to do that is honest and honorable, are many 
quaint, homely proverbs. Many of us were taught to repeat them as soon 
as we could articulate language. In that way our devoted mothers instilled 
into our infant minds the principles that invariably guide every man in 
safety through the devious course of a life, who can be influenced by moral 
trainings or important elementary truths. 

Show me the man from New Hampshire, who was insensible to the 
encouraging lesson, from the earnest teaching of a beloved mother's lips, by 
a couplet on yonder pannel : 

"Oaks from acorns, rivers from springs, 
The eagle at first had featherless -vvings." 

Who can estimate the amount of personal energy to overcome obstacles, 
and establish complete independence in wealth, by these lines : 

" Credit is won 
Without a dun ! " 

And again, 

"He is free to go 
Who does not owe." 

It was fitting, therefore, that these hamlet memorials of early days, in 
our far-ofl'and out-of-the-way birth-places, should be preserved. They were 



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sufficient, Tvitli all their simplicity, for a broad foundation on which to build 
a character that may be tested by the maxims which developed them. 

Not -wishing to occupy time that should be given to the guests who have 
honored this Festival, I much prefer to listen to their words of instruction, 
to hearing the echo of my own voice. Permit me, therefore, to close these 
reflections with the following sentiment : 

May the sons of New Hampshire be renowned for their force, 

In those industrial pursuits through life's rugged course, 

That elevate man, whatever his station, 

From the plough boy at home, to the head of the nation. 

And honor and honesty, like the heroes of story, 

Be their guide and protection, ambition and glory. 

[Great applause.] 

The Chair said, we are honored by the presence of two veterans of the 
New Hampshire press, and if not the oldest editors, they have but few 
seniors in this country ; the Hon, John Prentiss of Keene, and Hon. 
RicuARD BoYLSTON of Amherst. I call first upon Mr. Prentiss. 



EDITOR OF THE NEW HAMPSHIKE EENTIXEL. 

Mr. President: 

I feel, sir, I have no right to occupy the time of the evening. This 
belongs to the " Sons of New Hampshire." I am not a native, but having 
long resided in the State, and taken an interest in the existing questions 
agitated, I may, in view of your kind greeting, be indulged. 

You speak, sir, of the press, I have been connected with it for a long 
period — forty-eight years previous to 1848. It is a tremendous engine for 
good or evil, in a free country. It is like the steam locomotive — goes 
ahead ; sometimes explodes, but does but little harm. It gets ofi" the track 
as often, but nobody is killed. [Cheers.] I have a volume of the " New 
Hampshire Recorder " for the year 1789 and 1790. By actual admeasure- 
ment, its pages number twelve inches by sixteen. It was printed on paper, 
which, at this day, could readily be given away for xvrapping. Yet, it had 
much interesting matter, foreign, national and local. It was full of patriotic 
feeling. The French revolution was progressing ; our Federal Constitution 
was about being adopted, and Washington was making his tour through 
New England. On comparing this sheet with a volume of " Maj. Russell's 
Cohmhian Sentinal" 1785-6, the " Recorder'' actually has the advantage 



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in size ! The progress from that day or small things to the present period, 
may be appreciated by a glance at the daily sheets of our principal cities ; 
and I will instance that of the " Tribune " of New York, at the head of 
which is Horace Greeley, a son of New Hampshire ; [Cheers] eight pages 
in fine type, each page containing nearly as much reading matter as two of 
the papers mentioned in old confederation times. The press was, in most 
cases, conducted by the proprietors, who left the village school at fourteen 
to learn the art of printing. They were not all Franklins, however. 
[Applause.] At this day, most of our leading presses in the Union arc 
conducted more thoroughly by educated men.* 

In some of the last years of the last century, it was as common an affair 
for Massachusetts men to emigrate to New Hampshire, as it has since been 
common and fashionable to get out of the State. [Cheers.] New Hampshire 
is, in a good sense, a daughter of Massachusetts. In many of the towns, 
all the early settlers were from the latter State. In 1799, I launched my 
little canoe, steersman and oarsman, in the valley of the Ashuelot ; estab- 
lished the Neiv Hampshire Sentinel (which lives to this day in other hands.) 
and there I labored for good or ill, and there I expect to finish my earthly 
pilgrimage. AYith Channing I can say, " thank God for books — they are 
the true levellers," and with the great Roman orator, " old age has its 
advantages, as delivering us from the tyranny of ambition — from angry 
and contentious passions, and teaching us to retire within ourselves, and 
look for happiness within our own bosoms." [Cheers.] 

I feel, 3Ir. President, some little pride in our old County of Cheshire — 
I can't help it. You, sir, know it well. I found her in the last century, 
with all the other Counties in the State, strongly attached to the principles 
and policy of Washington and the men in his confidence, and there she still 
is, standing pretty much alone. [Applause.] " Friend after friend " has 
departed. It seems as if this "star" would "never set;" yet this year her 
position is rendered somewhat equivocal, by new party attachments and the 
superabundance of good men desirous of serving their county, if not the 
country. [Great applause.] 

* In 1810, there were but twelve newspapers p-ablishcd in the State. In 1839 only 
seven, viz : the New Hampshire Gazette, (the oldest, established at Portsmouth about "the 
year 1T5S, and still continued,) the Portsmouth Oracle, (now the Portsmouth Journal,) the 
Sun, at Dover ; the Dartmouth Gazette, at Hanover ; the Farmer's Museum, at Walpole ; 
the Concord Gazette, at Concord ; and the New Hampshire Sentinel, at Keene ; of these, 
two only are in existence by the original titles, and the " Journal" fi-om the old " Oracle." 
The New Hampshire Statesman is probably the continuation of the old Gazette, by George 
Hou-^h. The present number of existing weekly journals, political, religious, literarj- :ind 
agricultural, must be not far from forty. The New Hampshire Patriot, by Isaac Bill,, was 
established in 1808, and the Farvicr's Cabinet, by Richard Boylston, 1809 or 1810. 



MR. BOVLSTOX'S SrEECII. -iq-. 

A great many bright stars in our galaxy have gone out from us ; very 
many of them have set forever. But we do not despair. It is thought by 
some that the President of the United States -will be at home a^-ain in a 
few short years. Then we have a patent, self-appointed captain of what is 
called the " Old Guard," who has returned to the State and erected a kind 
of batteriyig ram, now pointed against the sins of commission, and some 
think of omission, at "Washington, and doing terrible execution in our own 
capital. [Applause.] There are good men and true yet left in every part 
of the State — some in old Eockingham, where, for thirty years, all our 
Governors came from — nobody looking beyond her, north or west — the 
land of our Sullivaxs and Bartletts, our Gilmans, Langdoxs, Belis, our 
Smith and Plummer. Some of these men would have been called " giants 
in their days." [Cheers.] 

The old ship has an assorted cargo. Some think her navigation is endan- 
gered by "hard" and "soft" granite — the latter, however, of a more 
porous substance, like that of the White House at Washington. [Cheers.] 
But she is kept buoyant by other heavy consignments, including invoices of 
" principles " as old as the government, and, like London particular, ever 
improving with age. [Applause.] 

In conclusion, I offer the following sentiment : 

New Hampshire Homes — As good liomcs as anybody's homes. 

Three cheers were given for the Neio Hampshire Sentinel. 

Mr. R. BoYLSTOx, of Amherst, was then called upon, and responded as 
follows : 



^^iwtl] jot glr. §flHlst0ii; 

EDITOR OF THE FAHJIER's CABINET. 

Mr. President : 

It will, perhaps, be thought to be somewhat behind the times, in these 
days of progress, for such old men as myself and elder brother of the 
press, to attempt to speak on such an occasion as this — while there are 
hundreds of youngsters present who are filled with " fat matter," which 
they are ready and desirous to "distribute." It is true, sir, as veteran 
pressmen we have done some service in our day ; but we had no reason to 
expect to be pressed into your service to-night. And while I am conscious 
that from feebleness of voice, I could not be heard by this audience, I wil 
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only send to your table a few written remarks, accompanied by a sentiment, 
and submit them to your disposal — (which were as follows :) 

Mr, President : Being, with my senior, called upon to respond to a sen- 
timent in honor of " the press," I cannot but feel that in the course of near 
fifty years in which we have delved in our vocation we have contributed 
some humble part in the fulfillment of the motto of the " influential editor," 
that you have attached to one of the paintings which ornament your walls here- 
to-night — that " Politics and papers cut very strange capers," — and that 
we may have made some impress upon the public mind for good or evil. 
And while I have listened, sir, to your able address and others, and the 
eulogies that have been pronounced upon the Granite State and its great, 
worthy and influential men who have so conspicuously made their mark in 
the world, and the able advocacy of the representatives of the seats of 
learning, of the part those institutions have taken in the culture and rear- 
ing of these granite sons — I feel desirous to say a few feeble words for 
"the press" in this behalf. Did not, sir, these men, in their boyhood, be- 
fore they ever went to school, receive from the papers of the day their first 
pap of knowledge as they sat in their mothers' lap, who read and explained 
to them those influential juvenile stories and other precious lore for infant 
minds, from the old Farmer's Cabinet, the IS^ew Hampshire Sentinel, and 
other kindred periodicals of their time — which made an impress upon their 
memories that has never been erased ? [Cheers.] Did they not thence 
suck in their first intellectual food, which prepared them for the stronger 
meat of the schools and academies, and expanded their capacious and tena- 
cious minds for the reception of the higher nutriment and culture of the 
college ? Did they not here imbibe their first influence in politics, morals, 
and impressions of geography, and form their earliest conceptions of the 
things of this "wide, wide world," from these "folios of four pages, maps 
of busy life, its fluctuations and its vast concerns?" Did they not here 
find the beginning of that worldly wisdom, which, when cultured by stricter 
discipline in higher fields of learning, made them prominent and useful 
men ? Are not the sons of New Hampshire, then, sir, greatly indebted to 
" the press " for its Statesmen, Patriots, Sentinels at their Post, and in +' 
Cabinet — which has thus contributed, with the aid of those giant 1l 
of their mothers, so graphically described to-night by the gentleman fr*. . 
Detroit, in laying the foundation for building up and sending forth those 
" Goliaths of intellect of these days" who have gone out to Michigan, — 
and the tall men of Boston and elsewhere — and the world, for their salu- 
tary influence among men in all its borders. What, sir, would this world 
or its men be or do, without the aid of the press, or even without its 
periodicals and newspapers ? Here they get knowledge of, and are instigated 



MR. BOYLSTON'S SPEECH. -i 0-5 

to, every good purpose and enterprise of life — iiiteHIgencc of every name 
and nature — how to construct every thing needed in the performance of the 
various pursuits of man — or at least, how, when and where to procure 
every thing that ever was constructed under the sun ! And last, sir, to 
what purpose would be this fraternal convocation of the sons of New 
Hampshire and the Old Bay State, or similar occasions, were not the 
caterers of the press to note down and spread before the world what a '^ood 
time we have had ? [Applause.] 

Our principal theme of discourse here to-night, Mr. President, is New 
Hampshire and her sons. When 1 look over this spacious hall, and behold it 
filled with men brought up in, and brought out from, the lowly hamlets on 
and about our hills, and scan the course, as illustrated in the paintings on 
your walls, of the career of the New Hampshire boy, I feel assured, sir, as 
says one of your mottos — '• New Hampshire has a man for any place," 
and that everywhere there is a place for him and that he will find it — and 
shine in it ! For instance, sir, take a 2vild New Hampshire boy, it may be 
from Rindge. Trace him in his course to the City of Notions, and he 
soon becomes Wilder in useful and prosperous business. Intelligent and 
influential, you find him presiding in the Senate. Public spirited and a 
lover of rural art, he is President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Soci- 
ety, taking the lead in all improvements of agriculture and horticulture, 
with his highly cultivated fields, hundreds of specimens of the choicest 
fruits, and delightful flowers in profusion. In a Wilder flight, he is seen as 
the presiding genius of the National Pomological Society, with his four 
hundred varieties of pears in congress assembled. And still winging his 
way upward, he is found at the head of the United States Agricultural 
Society, in the exhibition of five hundred of the finest horses, four thousand 
beautiful women, and twenty thousand first-rate men ! And now, here, wo 
find him leading the van in the Festival gathering of fifteen hundred sons 
of New Hampshire whom he delights to honor, and they to honor him. 
Here he is, yet Wilder, and ever will be, till time shall put a stop to his 
career in his flights of usefulness, honor and renown ! [Great applause.] 

But, sir, I will not farther trespass upon your patience. Thanking you 
for your notice of the press and its ■' veterans," I propose to you the follow- 
ing sentiment : 

New Hampshire and Massachusetts! Her sons and daughters: united by the bonds of con- 
sanguinity and interest — intermingling in all the ties and assoeiations of life — prominent 
and prosperous in all its useful pursuits of business — shining conspicuous as lively stones 
in all the fabric of national glory — everywhere honored and respected. May they ever 
mutually cultivate and continue this blessed union, and never engage in other coalition 
than shall result in a happy fruition of fraternization, so felicitously enjoyed on this 
occasion. 



124 NEW UAMPSniRE FESTIVAL. 

Three cheers were then heartily given for the old " Farmefs CaM7iet." 
The chair then introduced Dr. Crosby, of Dartmouth College, who spoke 
as follows : 



Mr. President and men of New Hampshire : 

I thank you for your invitation to be present on this occasion, to witness 
and partake of your happiness and hospitality. You have enabled me to 
estimate the character and strength of New Hampshire. Living among her 
hills and mingling with her home population, I am impressed with the firm- 
ness and stability of her character and institutions, both civil and religious. 
But never until this hour, and in this presence, have I seen and known her 
strength, her surplus capital in mind and physical power. Never, until 
to-day, could I see the relevancy of the question asked me more than thirty 
years ago. When quite a young man I went to the South " to seek my 
fortune." Many persons of good intelligence in the South at that time 
knew very little of the East. They knew Boston was at the East, but 
could not exactly tell whether it was a town or a territory. In conversation 
with a woman of fair intelligence, I was asked where I was born. I replied, 
at the East, in New Hampshire. She looked thoughtful for a moment, as if 
to call up her geographical knowledge of the East, when she asked me, " In 
what part of Boston does New Hampshire lie ? " [Cheers.] I could now 
tell her where New Hampshire lies in Boston. In the Revolution, New 
Hampshire stood on Bunker Hill; not in elegance, but in might, with 
musket, powder-horn and slug. It is much easier to tell where New Hamp- 
shire is ?iot in Boston, than where she is. 

As one of the invited guests, I ought to thank you for this instance of 
your^ enlarged and generous hospitality. Were I to do so, Mr. President, 
they would be words of supererogation. This bountiful feast is as the refuse 
of that Liberty Tea Party given to the whole of North America in 177'' 
[cheers] — not in such little cups as these, requiring only a few pou^^ " 
there was then used three hundred and forty-two chests of tea, an^ le 
whole harbor of Boston was none too large to steep it in, and all might 
drink who pleased. That party was significant, and so is this. [Cheers.] 
That proclaimed what Boston intended to be ; this shows what Boston is. 
Is it said that " New Hampshire is a good State to emigrate from ? " Be 
it so. New Hampshire is not drained. There are " more of the same sort " 
" stopping with the old folks at home " ready to supply the largest demand. 
I not only admit that " New Hampshire is a good State to emigrate from." 



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I claim something. I claim for her that she is an imitative State. She has 
so nearly imitated Massachusetts in men, that one of the native speakers to- 
night says he was greatly surprised, on arriving at the State House, to find 
men there claiming to be sons of New Hampshire whom he supposed were 
born in Boston. This is not the best of the imitation, however. It is in 
the imitation of mind and character. Massachusetts received the Pilgrims. 
They lie buried in her soil ; and here is the secret of Massachusetts' pros- 
perity and greatness, and this it is which makes her so worthy of imitation. 
The Pilgrims gave her the bible and the spelling-book, the divine and the 
school-master. The early legislation of the Massachusetts Colony tended 
chiefly to three distinct objects, — religion, education, and equal rights ; 
and however much they may have erred at times in developing this prin- 
ciple, the bible and spelling-book have been studied and have shaped her 
course. 

The early New Hampshire settlers were from Massachusetts. Not singly, 
but in small communities; and the expounder of the bible and the teacher 
of the spelling-book were not forgotten. New Hampshire presents a living 
refutation of the declaration of a recent writer, that the spelling-book and 
gallows go hand in hand. And so they may without the bible. 

He must have derived his illustration from a land where " science is in 
advance of morals." With such a model, what ought New Hampshire and 
New Hampshire's sons to be ! Let the tempest rage and the billows rise ; 
let vice rear her protean head ; let all these assail her, — still she is safe if 
she continues to build on the Pilgrim Rock, the bible, and the spelling- 
book. [Applause.] 

I will not detain you to name the distinguished men which New Hamp- 
shire has given to Massachusetts. She has already " written their names in 
brilliant characters on the ever-during arch of fame," as stars of the first 
magnitude in her crown constellation. But, Mr. President, as a physician, 
I should be wanting to New Hampshire, to her sons present here to-night, 
and to myself, were I to let this occasion pass without bringing to your 
notice the Medical Profession of New Hampshire. Her past medical history 
is luminous with the names of Hall Jackson, Smitu, Cutler, Piekponx, 
Carrigan, Greene, Cogswell, Howe, Dow, Spaulding, Perkins, Oliver, 
Drake, Twitchell, and our living and indefatigable Mussey, besides a host 
of others who equally deserve notice and commemoration here. Of the 
triumphs of their skill I point you to the multitude now before me. [Cheers.] 
Probably there is not a physician in New Hampshire of middle age but has 
here to-night his representative. I hold it improper to go into a division 
or an estimate of services or of skill as to whom the palm belongs, or as to 
whose services could be dispensed with, or whose aid was indispensable. 



12Q [NEW HAMPSniKE FESTIVAL. 

They have all served, and rendered precious service. All have made night 
merry by the rattle of their -wheels and the jingle of their bells — a welcome 
sound to the suffering. May its past be diagnostic of the future. As I 
close, permit me to offer a sentiment. 

The medical men and medical charities of Massachusetts ! They arc her glory and licr defence. 

[Prolonged cheering.] 

Mr. AViLDER said he had great pleasure in calling upon a gentleman 
who had efficiently and acceptably served the association, their most worthy 
Secretary, PtOBERT I. Burbank, Esq. 

Mr. Burbank rose, amid great cheering, and said : 

Mr. President : 

If pressed into service at a later hour in the evening, I may make a few 
remarks — but being the youngest gentleman as yet called upon, and there 
being many older brethren present from abroad, who, no doubt, have spicy 
speeches in their pockets all ready for delivery, which we should all be 
delighted to hear, it would not be modest in me to occupy the time before 
them [cries of " go on!"]; I will, therefore, now '■^ serve this association 
acceptably'" by taking my seat and giving them an opportunity of listen- 
'ing to several of our venerable and worthy invited guests. 

The President next called upon lion. Horton D. Walker, Mayor of 
Portsmouth, who responded in the following speech: 



MAYOR OF PORTSJIOCTH. 

Mr. Presideiit and Gefiilevien : 

I did not expect to be called upon to speak this evening, nor can I aope 
to interest this audience after the many able and eloquent speeches to which 
we have already listened. 

It is my privilege to be personally acquainted with but few of those 
present ; but the genuine and heartfelt welcome which you have given us 
to-day assures me that I should deprive myself of much pleasure, and do 
great injustice to you, Mr. President and gentlemen, to feel myself a stranger 
on this interesting occasion. And why should I feel myself a stranger among 



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the sons of New Hampshire ? May I not claim to be one of you ? Born in 
the same State, on the ]mnks of the Connecticut, from whose rich and 
fertile soil have gone forth many to jiopulate this and other cities, and now 
living hard by the old Strawberry Bank, which has sent and still continues 
to send out her issues over the whole land, and whose bills arc everywhere 
current, surely I may claim to be one of you to-night. [Cheers.J Having 
alluded to that widely known institution, the Strawberry Bank, may I state 
a single fact which will show its soundness. Sir, it happened during the 
past year that nearly its entire circulation was returned home in a single 
day, and there was not a bill of it that was not readily redeemed ; and we 
hoi'O, at no distant day, its resources may receive another just such trial. 

Mr. President, I had the honor on that day to welcome the sons of Ports- 
mouth to their native place. It was a proud day for the city, — a day 
never to be forgotten. I rejoice in the privilege of meeting, on this occasion, 
not the sons of Portsmouth only, but the sons of New Hampshire, 

Sir, New Hampshire has sent you some of her noblest sons, — men whom 
she could ill afford to lose, and of whom Boston could not now well do 
without. It has been many times said that New Hampshire is a good State 
to emigrate from. Sir, I believe it; and I believe Massachusetts is a good 
State to emigrate to, judging from the success of those who have adopted it as 
their home. Go where you may, in any part of the earth where the foot of 
civilization has trodden, and there you will find New Hampshire men honor- 
ably filling the places of trust which have been assigned them. [Cheers.] 
They have gone forth from her hills and valleys armed with those high 
moral principles and animated with that resistless energy which fit men for 
any calling, and insure success in any part of the world. Sir, " by their 
fruits ye shall know them." But scattered as they are, over the wide extent 
of our own land and through other lands, think you, Mr. President, that 
they have ever forgotten that they arc New Hampshire men ? . No, sir ; no. 
This gathering here to-day proves that they cherish still the memory and 
the love of their native State. 

But I have already said more than I intended to say, and will close with 
this sentiment : 

Sons nf New Hampshire, residents of Boston ! While tbey delight to honor the city of their 
adoption, may they never forget their native State. 

[Cheering.] 

The President. I shall now resign this chair to one who is avcII knoAvn 
for his ability as a presiding oSicer, [Dea. Samuel Gheeli;.] 1 cannot, 



J^Og NEW HAMPSniRE FESTIVAL. 

however, take my leave witliout tendering my grateful acknowledgments to 
our brethren from abroad who have honored us with their presence, and 
especially to the various committees for their cordial and vigorous coopera- 
tion in carrying forward this Festival to its present happy consummation. 
Gentlemen, you have yet remaining a rich store of material to draw from. 
You have fruitful Hills, you have overflowing Wells, you have Bells 
that can make a merry peal, and you have Jewells of the first water. 
Permit me, in taking my final leave, to propose a sentiment. I give you — 

JS'eiv Hampshire ! The land of granite and ice .' Her soil may be cold and rugged, but it 
yields the best of all harvests, intelligent, virtuous and free men. Prosperity to all her 
sons, and success to all her citizens. 

[Great cheering.] 

Deacon Greele, on taking the chair, said: 

As there are many gentlemen here above nic in rank as well as in merit, 
I have no claim to be breveted on this occasion. Eut as it is the duty of a 
subordinate to obey the command of his superior, I yield to his command. 
Brethren of New Hampshire, I propose to you now — 



The health and happiness of the IIox. Maesuall P. "Wilder. In honoring our President, 
we honor ourselves. 



[This was greeted with tremendous cheering.] 

Gentlemen, I shall occupy this chair but a short time ; but shall soon call 
upon young New Hampshire to take my place. I rejoice to find that there 
are many young men here, natives of New Hampshire, who are amply quali- 
fied to fill the chairs of their predecessors. I now call upon my friend, Mr. 
Kent, who, I hope, will give a poem adapted to the occasion. Brethren, 
please attend to the language of the Muses. 



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cniarb nf 6m^t ^unt, l-sq. 



It seems, Mr. President, that something is expected from me ; and it is 
intimated, without sufficient warrant, that it is a poem. But I may as well 
inform you, sir, at the outset, that I have no poem; that I pumped myself 
so dry, in the almost interminable stream which I poured out four years 



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ago, as hardly to have been favored with a rill from the Castalian fount or 
the Pierian spring since. Whether or not I was on that occasion an 
exhausted giver, I have little doubt that my auditory was an exhausted 
receiver. [Applause.] 

I have not expected to be called upon for a speech, and, of course, am not 
intending to make any at the present time. The few who know me here, 
and those who know me best are aware that I make no pretensions to being 
a public speaker ; that I could not hope to interest you by any extended 
discussion, much less to enchain your attention by any of the flights of 
oratory. I belong, to be sure, in a humble way, to a profession which is 
said, emphatically, to have " the gift of tongues," [cheers] but I have never, 
I assure you, sinned very egregiously in that connection. My position in 
this regard may, perhaps, be illustrated by an anecdote told of one of our 
respected Vice Presidents. It is said he was accosted, on a certain occa- 
sion, as '• Colonel," to which address he did not readily respond. The ques- 
tion was asked, " Are you not a Colonel ? " " Well," the reply was, " they 
call me so sometimes, but, " referring very significantly to his one year's 
Aid-ship under Governor Morton, " I was never Colonel enough to hurt 
any body,''^ So I would say of myself, Mr. President, I was never lawyer 
enough to hurt any body. [Laughter and cheers.] 

Being, however, in some humble sense a lawyer, it may be supposed that 
I could do something at story-telling — I mean in an honest, bona fide way, 
not in the manner they sometimes preposterously allege that lawyers tell 
them. [Laughter.] I suppose I might tell two or three if I had time, but 
I will venture upon only one, as further illustrative of my position. I had 
a worthy neighbor in New Hampshire, who occupied an office adjoining 
mine. Frequent calls were made upon him by a person designated in our 
village by the title of " General ; " — a rather dilapidated specimen of 
humanity, who had seen better days, and could not well, it would then seem, 
see worse. One Saturday afternoon he called, and asked for some work. 
My neighbor had no work for him to do, but said to him, to get rid of his 
importunities, that he might go out and bring in from the shed a few arms- 
full of wood. This he did, and three cents were thrown out to him, by way 
of remuneration. The " General " did not seem satisfied, which led to an 
inquiry by the other whether he had not paid him enough. 

" I don't know but you have paid me as much as I have earned," was the 
answer, " but I did want about a fourpcnce-ha'penny to-day." 

" Take what you have got, and go along, ' General,' " said the employer. 
" I know what you want of the money. You want to get a pint of white- 
face for Sunday. I don't advise to you drinking, but I know you will have 



]^30 ^'^^ HAMPSniRE FESTIVAL 

the liquor. This will get you half a pint. Can't you keep Sunday on half 
a pint ? " 

" I don't know but I could, ' Squire,' " was the lugubrious response; "but 
liovo in the icorld icmdd it be kept ? " [Laughter.] 

Being a lawyer, I might, perhaps, make a speech ; but half, I\lr. Presi- 
dent, would it be made ? [Applause.] 

Instead of responding to the call now so kindly and courteously made, it 
might better become me to have waited until, perchance, " three times 
solemnly called," and then, like other delinquent respondents, to have made 
default. Your judgment might, in such case, be less severe than it may 
now be against me. But in all seriousness I would say, that a man must 
be poor indeed, who has not some fund on which he can draw upon an 
occasion like the present, and under circumstances so interesting as those 
which have called us together. I, for one, feel that it is good for us to be 
here — that it is well for us to turn aside from the busy cares of the world, 
and commune with our own hearts and with one another, upon things per- 
taining to our good old prolific mother, Xew Hampshire — so happily char- 
acterized by one of our favorite poets, as 

" Land of the forest and the rock, 

Of deep blue lake and mighty rirer, 
With mountains reared aloft to mock 
The storm's career, the lightning's shock, 

Our own green land forever! " 

" Land of the beautiful and brave. 
The freeman's home, the martyr's grave; 

The nursery of giant men, 
nrhose deeds have link'd with every glen, 
And every hill and every stream, 
The romance of some warrior-dream." 

[Great Applause.] 

I said at the outset, Mr. President, that I had no poem. I have none, 
strictly speaking. I have an apology for one, which perhaps may pass. Its 
merit will be it brevity ; and I introduce it rather to show that a man does 
not necessarily grow more garrulous as he grows older. 



MR. KENT'S POEM. 



FOR 1853. 

BY GEORGE KENT. 

Sons of the Granite border ! 

Land rich in song and story — 
Again we meet, as brothers greet, 

Though shorn in part of glory. 
Spirits of "Websteu, WooDErRY, Bells, 

Miller, McXiell, have fled — 
And Appleton and Dearborn too. 

Are number'd with the dead. 



Bartlett and Litermore have gone — 

TwiTCRELL and Atuerton — 
But in their place, a goodly race 

Of " Sons" are pressing on. 
Though Time has thinn'd our social band. 

And caus'd dear ties to sever — 
As here we meet, we trusting greet 

Our Fatherland forever ! 

With such a glorious array 

Of brothers, tried and true. 
We'll not despair, though cankering care 

Our ranks, in years, pass through. 
Though Death may stretch his icy hand 

And aged lips seal dumb, 
With fresh recruits our Granite band 

Yet echoes "still they come ! " 

They come from farthest borders. 

From distant Indian Stream, 
From Dixville Notch, Chocorua's peak. 

Of fabled tale and dream ; 
From the deep gorge the " Mount of Clouds ' 

O'ershadows, surely, "some" — ■ 
From Saco's vale, and Conway's dale. 

The cry is "still they come ! " 

From bald Moosehillock's fertile base, 

Connecticut's rich vales — 
And Baker's stream, the quondam theme 

Of warlike Indian talcs ; 



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132 NEW HAMPSUinE FESTIVAL. 

From foot of Cardigan and Squam — 
Pranconia's icy homo — 

And "Lake of the Great Spirit's smile, 
The cry is, " still they come ! " 



From Kearsargc, vcil'd in misty form, 

From Mascomy's deep stream, 
Beyond Blackwatcr, where to live 

Once scem'd an idle dream ; 
From Pem'gcwassct's rapid flow 

And Merrimack's busy hum, 
From Contoocook and Pcnacook, 

The cry is, "still tbcy come ! " 



From grand Jlonadnoek's broad domain, 

Ashuclot's dotted vales — 
Than which no fairer clime partakes 

The healthy mountain gales ; 
From Sugar river's sweet embrace. 

And Nashua's pleasant home. 
From Soucook, Suncook, Sunapcc, 

The cry is, ' ' still they come ! " 

From old Piscataqua's open mouth, 

Swallowing all " Oyster Bay" — 
From "Christian Shore," and ocean's roar, 

They cannot keep away. 
From Lamprey's stream, it is no dream, 

We hear the rushing hum — 
From " Clam-shell corner," all about. 

The cry is, " still they como ! " 

Well, let them come — wc 'vc cheers enough, 

Or seats in Yankee fashion — 
Nor fear the good things of the land 

At once to make a dash on ; 
Ours is " a gander party," true. 

Just now, for want of room — 
The Fair will better fare, when next 

Our cry is " lo, they come ! " 

[Applause] 
lUr. Wm. D. Crockett gave tlie following sentiment : 

The Sons of New Hampshire arc so numerous that wc could find no room for the / ' ligh- 
ters. But one of the matrons of the Granite State is here, the children of whose bra;}, are 
everywhere. Long live Mrs. PARTi^fcxoN ! 



MR. SUILLABEU'S POEM. 



133 



TliG Chair said : Presuming, from the sentiment just announced, that 
Mrs. Partington may be present, and being further confirmed in the 
suspicion by the suggestion that the lady sometimes appears in male habili- 
ments, I call upon her ladyship to reply to the sentiment, if present ; if 
not, I will request the gentleman who is entrusted with her spectacles to 
respond for her. 

Mr. SiriLLABER then read the following poem : 

^ dlmx ;ibout Ucto IJanipsMtc. 

BY B. P. SniLL.iBER. 

'Twas on a time — no matter when — 

I hate all stiff precision — 
There came across my dreaming ken 

A very truthful vision. 

And this the rhymer's art confest — 

A great one he esteems it — 
A thought is ripe to be expressed — 

He goes straightway and dreams it. 

And I, like Job, upon my bed, 

With midnight fancies teeming, 
Ilad .crotchets dancing through my head, 

That wove themselves in dreaming. 

I saw enthroned in matron guise, 

Our mother State, God bless her. 
And beamed within her gentle eyes 

The love that did possess her. 

A smile played kindly round her mouth. 

And spread her features over ; 
Her breath was sweet as breezes south 

That waft o'er fields of clover. 

She sat upon a " gentle rise '' — 

Mount Washington, it may be — 
A seat a stately dame might prize, 

To tend a mighty baby. 

Her feet reposed upon the plain, 

A^Tiere golden flowers were shining; 
Her glance embraced her broad domain. 

In peace and joy reclining. 
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134 NEW UAMrSIIIRE FESTIA'AL; 

She called her children far and near, 
And then, from many quarters, 

Her guiding matron voice to hear, 
Came troops of sons and daughters. 

They filled the valleys' fertile length, 
They thronged the mountains hoary, 

The ground shook 'neath their sturdy strength 
That told a granite story. 

Then rose the dame, her mighty arm 
In graceful power extended: 

"Children!" she spoke, and through the calm 
Her gentle tones descended. 

" Children, I've called you to my side, 
To test 3'our -warm devotion ; 

To send you on a mission wide, 
O'er many a land and ocean ; 

To act in forum or in mart, 
Where duty's voice is loudest; 
mingle in life's active part 
If humblest or if proudest; 

lo make my name an honored word. 
Where'er that word is spoken; 

A guaranty wherever heard. 
Of faithfulness unbroken." 



Thus ran the dream — 'twas but a dream - 

A figment all ideal — 
And yet so truthful did it seem 

I could but deem it real. 

heard a sound — the nations spoke — 
And, as if thunders muttered. 
One voice in mighty accents broke — 
'Twas Webster's name it uttered. 

saw on many a battle plain 
"Where Freedom's star was beaming. 
Mid falling showers of deadly rain, 
New Hampshire's banner streaming ; 

Where busy science tried its skill. 
Where art essayed its cunning; 

Where trade contrived its pouch to fill. 
Where railway wheels were running; 



MR. SniLLABERS I'OJC.M. 10- 

loo 

Where poesy its numbers sung, 

Where eloquence was thrilling; 
Where white-winged ships like coursers sprun", 

Where fertile lauds were tilling: 



Where wealth delighted turned to flowers, 
AMiere health dispensed its treasures; 

Where love made glad domestic bowers, 
The crown of all our pleasui-es — 

Xew Hampshire's honored name was known, 
And crowned with many a token ; 

Her fame had like her eagles flown — 
Was reverenced where'er spoken. 

' Twas Lut a vision, recollect, 

That came to me in dreaming; 
But may not waking retrospect 

Xow reconcile its seeming'? 

I drop the metaphor and wake — 
I heed your looks imploring — 

' Twere too great sacrifice to make 
Tour holocaust by boring! 

^lay we around our natiW State 

Stand, like those ramparts Grecian,* 

A wall whose strength shall ne'er abate, 
But stick with firm adhesion. 

Should foes around her gather thick. 

Or trouble's clouds enfold her. 
Each in that wall would prove a brick — 

An adamantine boulder. 

May peace within her bosom reign — 

No violence distress her; 
Let every son this toast now drain. 

Our MOTnER State! God bless her! 



* AUudiug to the "jolly old Grecian," who, when asked to show the walls of Sparta, 
or some other place, had his army drawn up, like "brave AVolfe's," before the city, and 
pointing to the array, according to Punch, cried, "There is the wall, and every man in it 
is a brick." 



136 NEW nAMPSniRE FESTIVAL. 

The Chair called upon Rev. Mr. Bodwell, who responded as follows : 

I count myself happy, Mr. President, in being numbered among the sons 
of New Hampshire. I am more than contented with the place of my birth. 
I love its bleak hills and its wild forests not one whit less than the softer 
features of its landscape. Every succeeding year adds to the pleasure with 
which I look upon its many brave and beautiful pictures. I would not 
barter the pleasant memories of my home among the mountains for treasures 
of gold. I would not give in exchange the impressions made indelibly in 
my soul by the glories of her scenery in my early years, for all the advan- 
tages of a Roman birthright, an Athenian education, and a residence of half 
a century amid the highest civilization of Europe. And I have no doubt 
that every true-hearted and worthy son of New Hampshire will say the 
same thing. Give such impressions in exchange ! Sir, you cannot do it. 
That would be to barter your very manhood, its noblest energies, and purest, 
strongest aiFections. [Cheers.] 

Now, sir, that portion of the outer, material world which can so deeply, 
indelibly impress itself on its children's characters and hearts, is not to be 
despised. 

It was during almost my first visit to this city of wealth and pride, an 
inexperienced youth, that I was brought in contact with one of its merchant 
princes, who pleased himself by speaking of my native State in terms not 
altogether complimentary. " We could do very well without New Hamp- 
shire," he said. The shadow of his great presence fell upon me so impress- 
ively that I almost felt as if that little member of the august confederacy 
had been annihilated by his words. But when I got safe back to my home 
among the hills, and saw the hoary Kearsarge and the grand Monadnock 
looking as serene and full of majestic repose as when I had left, evidently 
quite unconscious that any such terrible words had been spoken, [applause,] 
I breathed freely again, and thought that if I were permitted to stand once 
more in the presence of that proud merchantman, I would pluck up courage 
to say to him, that while no doubt " we " could do very well without New 
Hampshire, yet Boston at least managed to do very well with her ; that, at 
that very moment. New Hampshire's most illustrious son was her idol and 
her pride, at the bar and in the great senate of the nation [applause] ; and 
that in the entire range of her every-day life, mechanical, mercantile, 
literary or professional, not a calling could be found that was not honorably 
and successfully followed by a son of New Hampshire. Merchants, bankers, 



MR. BODWELL'3 SPEECH. 



137 



editors, lawyers, physicians, clergymen, orators, statesmen, — which of them 
all, if she should claim her own, would not lose at once a man of mark. 
[Cheers.] 

Repeated allusion has been made to-night to the saying of Jeremiau 
Mason, that New Hampshire is a good State to remove from. However he 
may have meant it, the great lawyer could not have paid her a more grace- 
ful or a more substantial compliment. She certainly is a good State to 
remove from. And why ? Because her sons carry with them from their 
home that which qualifies them to take their place in any and every other 
State where it may please them to sojourn. If her climate, mild as that of 
Italian skies, and balmy as the Orient, produced a race luxurious, cfiemi- 
nate, indolent, would she be a good State to remove from then ? No, sir. 
The best thing her sons could do in that case, would be to stay at home. 
[Cheers.] 

But, sir. New Hampshire needs no eulogy from me. as her own immortal 

Webster said of our adopted State. There she is, and there she will be 

forever. True, she has not, like this sister Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 

a Concord, a Lexington, and a Bunker Hill, of revolutionary celebrity ; 

albeit she has no cause to be ashamed of the part she bore in that grand 

struggle. But she has enough, and much more than enough to justify the 

pride and warm affection which every recollection of her will always 

awaken in the bosoms of her sons. Those moss-covered granite ledges, 

cropping out of her hill-sides, over which we scrambled like the wild goats 

in our boyhood, and so exquisitely beautiful in their barrenness that the 

artist who renders them truly on his canvass shall have his name inscribed 

among the masters ; her rivers, pellucid as crystal where they flow over 

their gravelly bed, or fringed with verdure such as the Rhine itself can 

hardly surpass ; her lakes, whose sleeping surface, with numerous green 

islets, like clusters of emeralds in settings of silver, gives back the light of 

heaven in wondrous beauty, like the Great Spirit's sweetest smiles ; and her 

glorious mountains, 

" Piock-ribbcd and ancient as the sun," 

relieved against the blue sky to-day in the self-same outline which they 
exhibited when Solomon sat in his ivory throne, and the first stone of 
the pyramids was laid; there they are, and there they will be forever. 
[Applause.] 

And the simple tastes, and warm true hearts, and manly virtue and intel- 
ligence, and earnest Christian faith, which are nurtured amid the magnifi- 
cence of her scenery, while they give character alike to her public institu- 
tions and her daily pursuits, and shed a pure radiance on many a sweet 
home within her own borders, shall still secure for her an honorable rank 

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J.38 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

in this proud confederacy of States, and put her sons, v/herevcr they go, in 
the fore-front of life's great battle. 

May I be permitted in conclusion, Mr. President, to offer a sentiment : 

Our Native State ! May she never have more reason to be asLamcd of her sons, than her 
sons have to be ashamed of her. 

[Applause,] 

The Chair. I understand that the Boston Courier is now present, and 
that one of his stopping places is Hull ; whether Hull in England or Mas- 
sachusetts I am unable to say ; but let me assure you that when he enter- 
tains us -^{ilxjish, whether flounders or cod, they are always \^q\\ fryed. 

Mr. Fkye responded with the sentiment : 

The next Celebration of tlic sons of New Hampshire — May those who attend it roccivc a 
physical and intellectual entertainment etiiial to that wliicli has gladdened ns to-night. 

The Chair called upon Mr. Jewell, who gave the following response : 

Mr. President : 

Standing as I do among the men of Cheshire County, and called upon as 
I am by you, can I do better than to say a word for the men of that county 
resident in Massachusetts. We are here as Massachusetts men, recalling 
the history of our native State, and the memory of its early days. Some 
have spoken here of the settlement of the banks of the Piscataqua at Ports- 
mouth, others of the settlement and early history of Exeter, and others of 
the inhabitants of the Merrimack. I will speak for those immediately 
around me, and of Cheshire. 

Sir, old Cheshire presents in -her history an aspect as interesting as any 
in the annals of New Hampshire. Like the counties along the Merrimack, 
Cheshire was principally settled from this State. The settlers along the 
Connecticut, of Hadley, and Deerfield, early found their way up that noble 
river to the mouth of the Ashuclot, — " the collection of many waters," — 
and located themselves upon its banks. As early as 1732 a grant of land 
was made -by the authorities of the Massachusetts Province to certain of 
their citizens, comprising what was then known -as the Lower and Upper 
Ashuelot, and further up the Connecticut, Number Four, as it was then 
called. I shall not, Mr. President, say much for old Number Four, for I 
see opposite me my friend Mr. Hubbakd, a native of the town, and far better 



Mil. JEWELL'S SPEECH. 



139 



able than I am to speak for that region. Out of the Lower Ashuelot 
came the towns of Winchester and Swansey. Keeue was the name after- 
wards given to the Upper Ashuelot, and Number Four at length became 
Charlestown. The Massachusetts Colonial Government claimed jurisdiction 
over all this territory, and it was supposed to belong to that province till 
the year 1740, when it was settled otherwise by the King in Council. And 
the inclination of the men of Cheshire to the present day to adhere to Massa- 
chusetts, is not unlike that of their ancestors, for, on receipt of this decision 
of the King, separating them from the Old Colony, they appointed an agent 
to represent their case in person before His Majesty, and voted " to pre- 
sent a petition to His Majesty in Council, setting yb?*^/i their distressed estate, 
and 2)raying that they may be annexed to the Massachusetts Province." 
And since the failure of that petition, the sons of old Cheshire, having con- 
tinued to " feel their distressed estate," and being unable to obtain a decree 
annexing them to the Massachusetts Province, have taken the matter into 
their own hands, and made it their province to annex Massachusetts to 
them, and we here see the result. [Cheers.] 

Mr. President, our portion of the State is full of historical incident and 
interest. Through it lay the pathway of the Indians and French, who from 
time to time made incursions into the heart of Xew England, There were 
Fort Dummer, and Bridgnian's fort, and Hinsdale's fort, at Hinsdale, near 
the mouth of the Ashuelot, and many others were scattered along up the 
river. Here was the birthplace of the heroine of that most touching and 
interesting tale, related by herself, the story of the captivity and sufierings 
of Miss Jemima Howe. Here were the finest of the hunting and fishing 
grounds of the Indians ; and the hieroglyphics, still visible about the Bellows 
Falls, manifest their attachment. Here was the scene of another of the 
heroic deeds, not of our fathers only, but of our mothers. John Kilkukn 
and IIezekiau Peak, and their two sons, with Kilburn's wife and his daugh- 
ter HiTTY, who alone in a small fort near the Great Falls, on the banks of 
Cold Piiver, maintained themselves against near four hundred savages, 
should not pass without mention ; when Hitty Kilburu and her mother 
moulded the bullets and loaded the muskets for their father and Ijrothcr and 
their two brave companions till their lead was all gone, and then, to re- 
plenish their exhausted magazine, with suspended blankets caught the spent 
bullets of their Indian foes as they rattled through the roof. [Applause.] 
And there is the gallant defence of the fort at Number Four, conducted by 
Captain Stevens and his heroic men, against an overwhelming force of 
Indians and French, which gained from Commodore Charles Knowles, then 
commanding the British fleet upon these shores, such encomiums and re- 
wards that, upon the incorporation of the place in 1753, in honor of him it 
received the name of Charlestown. 



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It is now precisely a hundred years since the incorporation of the prin- 
cipal large towns of Cheshire County. Within that period what a change 
has taken place. The heroism of the first settlers there has been eclipsed 
by those of later days ; but we may recall the memory of both, and learn 
to honor sufficiently those who, in early times, conquered a savage wilder- 
ness, and a still more savage foe, while enjoying the civil and religious 
liberty obtained by the struggles and sufferings of their sons, our Revolu- 
tionary fathers. 

For the men of Cheshire around me I will, in conclusion, only say, that 
although deeply feeling " our distressed estate " we have annexed ourselves 
to the Massachusetts province, we are proud of our birth and our origin, 
proud of the land of our early education. We honor the memory of our 
heroic fathers. Our affection clings to the fathers and mothers, and 
brothers and sisters who remain behind us ; and I trust we are duly grate- 
ful to a kind Providence which has blessed, and we hope will continue to 
smile upon them and us, wherever our lot may be cast. [Great applause.] 

Mr. Nasu, being called upon, read the following: 

Co the f ons iiuij f cents of ^tlu |jani|)slnrt. 

EY STEPHEN G. NASH, ESQ. 

T s Indian Summer mid the Crj'stal Hills, 

And Autumn's sun is lovelier than June's ; 
A wizard splendor all the soft air thrills, 

And genial south winds hum their lulling tunes ; 
A shimmering haze of purple richly gleams 
'er the blue mountains, lakes, and wildwood streams ; 

The Winnepecsaukee * gleams with milder lustres, 

The granite hills put on a riper blue ; 
In Autumn, too, come the militia musters, 

With snare-drums, fifes, and base-drums' wild tattoo, 
And pedlars, tin horns, fiddlers, dread sham-fights, 
E.ed troopers, and shot ram-rods — youth's delights. 



* Of the forty ways of spelling the nnme of this lake, Winnepisiogee is least supported 
by the authorities of early maps and charters, or by the analogies of the Indian language. 
The universal pronunciation in the vicinity of the lake, perhaps as good a test as any, is 
^'\ln-n£-pee-snck-ee. The muse of New Hampshire has to lament the harshness of the name 
of this " Smile of the Great Spirit," and may be justified in contraeting it into Winnfpee, 
which is not without melody and beauty. 



MR. KASII'S POEM. 

And, standing on Kearsarge, the vision rests 

Upon a wild realm, like an ocean wide. 
Ridged into hilly waves with granite crests, 

In crimson, gold, and shifting purples dyed, 
As if the sunsets and the rainbows red 
Their lavish splendors on the woods had shed. 

The merry apple-bees — the jolly huskings, 

The corn's red ears that won sweet lips far redder, 

And boxed ears too — the barn floor's dancing buskins — 
The squirrel-hunts — the oat-straws and new cider — 

The turkey-shoots — all, all in memory rise, 

AVith deep thanksgiving puddings and vast chicken pics. 



Those great thanksgiving dinners ! Whig or Tory, 
Free Soil, Hard, Soft Shell, Hunker, dead or living. 

Unto that Governor and Council's glory, 

Whose proclamation made the first Thanksgiving, 

Let's set the Sandwich woods a-fire, drain Squam lake dry, 

And in it bake a huge, tremendous pumpkin pie. 

Spring has its fast days. May flowers, and May training, 
Summer its green grass and bud-bursting flowers, 

And " glorious Fourths," and hay-cocks wet with raining, 
And brook-trout fishing up the mountain bowers, 

March its town-meeting, where are chosen hog-reeves. 

And the great " Gin'ral Court" representatives. 

Winter has singing schools, and mill-pond skating. 
And sliding down hill on small sleds — or shingles ; 

And boys and girls, grown big enough for mating. 

Make love the while each jangling sleigh-bcU jingles, 

And o'er the snow-crust trails the moon's soft splendor. 

And buffalo-skins keep warm the maidens tender. 

Eut give mo golden Autumn ; o'er my heart 

Glimmer the Indian summer of the soul ; 
For we draw near life's autumn, and depart 

Too soon the boyhood dreams that o'er us stole ; 
Then let us say, like Joshua, while it will. 
Sun of the past, in memory's heaven stand still. 

Sons of the Granite State, your boj'hood's eyes 
Have gazed upon the Merrimack's sweet tide. 

And seen the great AVhite Hills in grandeur rise. 
You've climbed wild Unconoonooc's wooded side, 

O'er steep Chocorua hailed full many a day. 

And seen Munadnoc flushed with sunset's ray. 



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The Saco foams, the Suncooc lights the grove, 
The bright Souhcgan eddies into smiles. 

The Ox-bow winds its circling arms of love 
Around its grassy intervales and isles, 

The Nashua gleams, the Olivcrian sings. 

The Neewishwannoc bubbles from its springs ; 



The Strawberry Bank still shade its flowery balm. 
The Ossipee glimmers with the round moon large, 

And Newfound pond sleeps in its starry calm. 
And Sunapee sweetly smiles to old Kearsarge ; 

Sons of New Hampshire, how some heart-string thrills 

At each old name familiar mid our hills. 



Though 'tis a rugged clime, and those stout hearts 

Which beat there, beat as ' twero 'gainst banks of snow. 

Yet fire sleeps in the flint-stoue, lightning darts 
Oft from the snow-clouds with a summer glow, 

And granite friendships ne'er shall part asunder. 

Till old Monadnoc bows down to the thunder. 



Ileroic Stark, a boy of but fifteen. 
The murderous Indian gauntlet forced to run, 

Snatching a war-club, boldly rushed between 
The lifted tomahawks, while his blows did stun 

Full many a warrior's skull, and his race ended, 

Left on the ground a score of braves extended. 

McNeill and Mii.i.ku, Cilley and Sullivak, 

Have bid defiance to the foe's red rally, 
British or savage, and in battle's van 

Led through the grainficlds and each corn-bright valley 
Their band of mountaineers from the hills' vastncss. 
Like battle eagles from their mountain fastness. 



The Hills and Freedom ! Speak, thou Greece of old, 
'\Yhere fiercest rung and longest freedom's song; 

Speak, Switzerland, where Tell's great heart grew bold. 
And Hofer's soul amid thy crags grew strong ; 

Speak, proud Circassia's Sohamyl, hurled by thee 

The crags out-thunder Buss artillery. 



Speak, freemen of all lands, your banners fly 
High up the hills, when plains no more are free ; 

And speak, all history, with your grand reply, 
That mountains arc the cradles of the free. 

And freedom's sun, when plains no more it fills. 

Sheds its last sunset glories on th' eternal hills. 



MR. BURBANK'S REMARKS., -i_j.^ 

Match mo our mountain girls ; and sigh no more 

For Eastern houries or Circassian maids, 
But with our wido-awakc, loj'al girls, roam o'er 

Our dewy dells and tangled mountain glades. 
And star their glossy hair with wild-wood flowers, 
And kiss their love-lips in their wild-wood howcrs. 



Our land of mountains and of mountain mind ; 

Cass, Mason, AVoodbt;ky, rise before our eyes. 
And his great name, which State lines cannot bind, 

For 't is the Continent's and history's ; 
And Franklin is the shrine of patriot worth, 
And Marshfield the Mount Vernon of the North. 



New Hampshire, by thy crags and lucid rills, 
By thy White Hills where grandeurs dwell alone ; 

By wild Franconia, where the spirit thrills 
In awe before the Old Man's mountain throne ; 

By Winnepeesaukee's blue and rijjpling sheen, 

By thy weird realm of boundless evergreen ; 



God grant some pale young Poet yet may rise, 

Whose soul shall wax grand with thy grand old mountains 

Whose heart shall glow with thy autumnal skies 
And tremble with the music of thy fountains, 

Until he pours thy lakes and hills along 

Tho Poet's spell and consecrating song. 



In response to a remark from the Chair, in honor of Coo? County, 
Mr. Bdrbank said : 



Remarks Df |l. |. ^mhwl 4'Sq. 

Mr. Chairman: 

In behalf of the County of Coos, I most sincerely thank the sons of New 
Hampshire here assembled, for the very kind and generous manner in which 
her name has just been received. 

While, sir, our native County is inferior in numbers, she yields the palm 
in nothing else. From the days of the revolution to the present time, she 
has contributed her jewels of patriotism, enterprise and morals, to increase 
the fair fiime of the Old Granite State. 



J^4 NEW IIAMPSniRE FESTIVAL. 

As you behold upon the map the serried hills and mountains, apparently 
elbowing each other for more room, you naturally conclude that ours is a 
land of shadows and of gloom. But, sir, search from the Danube to the 
Rio Grande, and thence to the golden shores of the Pacific, for grandeur and 
sublimity of scenery, and, if anywhere, you will find them in old Coos — 
God bless her ! [Cheers.] 

As by stage-coach or rail-car you enter our corner of the State, you find 
yourself threading rich and beautiful valleys, variegated with luxuriant 
fields waving in our pure and healthful mountain breezes. And as you 
tread the banks of our meandering streams and crystal lakes, reflecting 
verdant hill-sides, all smiling and radiant in grateful sun-light, you at 
every turn are greeted with neat and thriving villages, proud of their 
churches, academies and snug little school-houses — and there, too, are happy 
homes, — founded and cherished by joyous industry, and from which the hand 
of liberal hospitality is freely extended to welcome you thither. [Cheers.] 

Such are our valleys, and such our happy homes. 33ut ascend our tower- 
ing mountains — those rich repositories of mineral wealth — and from their 
lofty summits, in the very skies, behold the far-off ocean ; and then the 
glorious outstretched landscape, teeming with primeval forests, agriculture, 
enterprise and wealth, as far as the eye can reach, and your thrill of admi- 
ration cannot be described ; it can only be felt, while standing on the top 
of our own Mount Washington. [iVpplause.] 

Sir, in the result of this second Festival, our hearts throb and our bosoms 
heave with as true pride as those from any other County in the State; and 
wherever inclination or interest may lead them, our earnest good wishes 
will ever attend the sons of good old New Hampshire. 

I beg leave to ofier the following sentiment : 

Our future Festivals — More joyous than their predecessors, as the sons of New Hampshire 
are less glorious than her daughters ; those fairest flowers of our native valleys ; those rich- 
est jewels of our native mountains, whose cheering presence will grace and adorn our future 
brilliant festivities. 

[Applause.] 
C. C. Andrews, Esq., of Boston, having been called upon by the Chair- 
man to respond to a compliment in honor of Hillsborough County, said : 



MR. ANDREWS' REMARKS. 1^5 



gcnuirlts fit €, €, ^wMns, (tsq; 

Mr. Chairman: 

I deem it unfortunate for myself as well as for those present, that you 
have invited me to respond for the County of Hillsborough. It might have 
been somewhat appropriate, perhaps, for me to rise as a representative of 
the town of Hillsborough ; but, to be called up thus unexpectedly, and when 
ray reason has been captivated by the eloquence which has flowed from so 
many lips, I can neither do justice to myself nor to my native home. 

The town of Hillsborough, it seems to me, is entitled to our especial 
notice on this occasion, as having furnished to the country and the world 
the present chief magistrate of the nation. [Cheers.] And it gives me the 
greatest pleasure to believe that her entire population feel a deep pride that 
a statesman whose career has been so preeminently fortunate and illustrious 
had there his birth-place. But a deeper and juster pride they experience 
in the assurance, shared in by us, I am certain, that he is a patriot states 
man. [Applause.] Hereafter I trust it may be said of him as of his first 
great predecessor, " it matters not what immediate spot may have been the 
birth-place of such a man." I have been gratified, sir, to observe that the 
leading sentiment which has characterized the speeches of this evening, is 
that of patriotism. It is patriotism which is uttered forth in every word of 
that beautiful sentiment which President Pierce has favored us with, and 
which has been received with such a cordial welcome. "What a source of 
felicity to us all it is, that the annals of our native State furnish so many 
instances of patriotism. Examples of heroism even, confined to neither 
sex, we may there find, which rival, if they do not surpass, any that can be 
produced in the history of the ancient States. As I have listened to the 
touching allusions which have been made by difierent speakers to the early 
incidents in New Hampshire history, as well as to some of a later date ; to the 
strong love of country which characterized her hardy settlers; to the 
eloquence and sagacity of her men in council ; to their brave and daring 
exploits on the tented field, and their readiness to relinquish everything for 
the public good ; I indeed thought that our lovely mother State resembled 
in many respects that 

" Clime of the unforgotten brave, 

Whose hind, from plain to mountain cave, 
"Was freedom's home or glory's grave." 

[Applause.] 

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l^Q NEW HAMPSniRE FESTIVAL. 



% gawgMtrs lof D'tlu |j;uiipMtc; nx i\n Mh^t Mm^ €m\L 



BY ErGEME^BATCHELDER, OF CAMBRIDGE. 

Would that the girls were Tvith us ! that the daughters all -n-cre here! 

(Let us build a hall to hold us all before another year,) 

Then might I Marshall Wilder strains, in glowing lines along, 

And pour through all their hearts and brains a sparkling stream of song. 

But now just see these hosts of men, each man himself a host, 

From Smith, on Karnak's columns, to Greene on his, the " Post !" 

And tell me, Mr. President, after all the good things said. 

Would it not be rather wiser, sir, to leave these lines unreadl 

Besides, I hear there'll be a book, for which all Xew Hampshire waits, 

A book about the dinner, illustrated with plates. 

As waiter at tliis jolly feast, a quondam author hovers. 

Who, while he's taking covers ofif, is putting you in covers ; 

Now mark this author's eager mind, a hundred horse-power force is, 

And in his book each speech you'll find served up between the courses. 

The daughters are not with us, but I'll show you where they arc; 

Come up in Ilillsboro' county — the journey is not far; 

Close nestled 'neath a mountain, there stands an ancient town. 

And there, upon a farm-house, let us glance a moment down; 

A nice, snug, thrifty farm-house — a real Xew Ilampshire farm; 

Which, for every true New Hamp.shire man, has a most peculiar charm ; 

Because it speaks of other days, of years when we were young; 

When a father gave his blessing, while a mother round us clung, 

As we stood upon the threshold of that poor and humble door. 

With the world we loved behind us, and the untried world before. 

And what should wc, this evening, in that humble farm-house seekl 

New Hampshire's fairest daughters — they meet there once a week; 

Yes, there strong-minded women of the nineteenth century go 

Like the sowers in the parable, so they go forth to sew ; 

In short, the sewing circle, in that old farm-house we see, 

Where the girls make shirts and night-caps, and the beaux drop in to tea. 

They've met, a rousing fire up the monstrous chimney roars. 

While the blasts of chill November are whistling round the doors, 

When Mrs. Jonas Jotham Jones remarks to Mrs. Lee, 

What a dreadfully cold winter this winter's going to be! 

I hope that folks in Boston won't let flour get much higher, 

For if they do, I'd like to know where they hope to find a buyer. 

I hope Kossuth, with Hungary, will go and join the Turk, 

And thus teach the Czar of Russia how curiously things work; 

And I trust that Kossuth won't forget, when his nation's fairly free. 

That he owes about ten dollars, for Hungarian Bonds, to me! 



MR. BATCIIELDER'S P0E5I. -i am 

And then, there's Captain Ingraham, of our nation's gallant ship, 
Who had his guns all ready; Jones wished he'd let 'cm rip, 
Just to teaeh those haughty Austrians that "Young America" takes care 
That those who justly claim her aid shall have it, everywhere. 

Now Mrs. Lee, now don't you think that Xcw Ilampshire girls might do 
Something to put the Monument at Washington right through; 
Instead of hemming handkerchiefs for the natives of Fejee, 
Let us help to build a tower for him who made our country free; 
Let us straightway set about it, and hold a monstrous Fair, 
Like the one they held in Boston, when all the world was there; 
When they finished off the monument that stands on Bunker Hill, 
Where Daniel AYcbster spoke those words, that in memory linger still — 
" Let it rise to meet the coming sun, there the earliest morning ray 
Shall gild it, and the latest hues of twilight fade away." 

But see, the beaux are coming in, the belles must now be heard. 

And merry eyes give welcome with many a merry word; 

And with them comes the minister, the lawyer and the deacon, 

The last on Zion's walls you'll find a most conspicuous beacon; 

He knows the hymn-book right straight through, and also all the psalms. 

And he can pitch, and sing them too, with a voice that always charms; 

And though a very pious man, he laughs and jokes quite freely, 

And in many points resembles much our good friend Deacon Greele. 

Well, now the tea is handed round, the work a moment stops; 
The mothers talk of babies, while the farmers talk of crops. 

Three girls within a corner, barricaded with a chair, 

Are talking of the minister, and if it 's right to wear 

New bonnets out to meeting if next Sunday should be fine, 

And where the schoolmaster next week intends to board and dine. 

Some are getting up a sleigh-ride, while some propose a ball; 
Miss Smith thinks that is awful, and will not do at all. 

Mr. John Josiah Johnson is telling Uncle Ben 
How he found on old Monadnoc a wolf within his den ; 
What a dreadful fight his dogs had, even after he was shot, 
Until at last old Towser laid him dead upon the spot. 

The lawyer talks, and eats, and talks, and drinks great mugs of cider, 

And the farmers, as they listen, get their peepers open wider. 

For he 's telling them that otir Frank Pierce, the man who rules the nation. 

Is just about the smartest man there is in all creation; 

And wishes him the best of luck, and all sorts of good wishes, 

And wouldn't much object to share with him the " loaves and fishes." 

Thus gaily round the circle the stream of small talk flics, 

And young lovers do not talk at all, or else speak with their eyes; 

While matrons, somewhat older, sedately sit and sew. 

Until at last, at nine o'clock, they all get up to go — 



J48 NEW UAMPSIIIRE FESTIVAL. 

But not until the minister has made a humble prayer, 

That those who meet this evening here, may find a world more fair, 

" AVhere the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary rest from care.' 

The girls have gone, the merry hour is o'er. 
And I am done, sir, in one moment more. 



fjjntf. 



InTcw Hampshire, dear New Hampshire '. 

Our hearts turn back to thee, 
To your crystal fountains flowing, 

To your wild woods waving free. 
To your lofty snow peaks soaring 

Towards your skies of azure hue. 
To your fertile plains, and valleys, 

And your sons and daughters true. 

Kew Ilampshire, dear New Hampshire! 

Our lives are flowing on, 
And, with many here this evening, 

Life's young buoyancy is gone ; 
But, ah ! our memories turning back, 

This evening mark the time, 
"When we left thy hills and rivers 

In the freshness of our inime. 

New Hampshire, dear New Hampshire! 

Through eyes half filled with tears 
"We see, as in a vision. 

That scene of earlier years ; 
Hear again a father's blessing, 

Catch a mother's smile of joy. 
As she wished a heartfelt God speed 

To her young and ardent boy. 

New Hampshire, dear New Hampshire' 

In thy cold, bleak grave-yards rest 
The hearts that loved us earliest. 

Perhaps they loved us best ; 
And oft the silent tear-drop flows, 

'Mid our cares, and toil, and strife, 
To think no wealth can summon back 

Those once loved forms to ife. 





Jr. tae eve of this publicalion.Mr. diickeriag suddenly deceasea. 
He diei Dec. 8'-^ 1853, universally ieloved and deeply lamented. 



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The following sentiments were offered : 

By NiNiAN C. Betton, Vice President : 

The Women of New Hampshire ! As wires seldom equalled; as mothers never surpassed, 

By Jonas Chickekixg, Vice President : 

The Utile red school-houses perched on the lull-tops of A'ctv Hampshire ! The nurseries from 
whence have issued the men whose enterprise, perseverance and genius, have penetrated 
every habitable portion of the globe. 

By Silas Durkee, M. D., Vice President : 

The old Granite State ! May her sons, as they behold her hoary head from generation 
to generation, rise up and call her blessed. 

By Thomas Simmons, Vice President : 

New Hampshire! The pure air of her hills and vales imparts to her sons and daughters 
that strength of body and mind which enables them to grapple with the storms of life, or 
in elegant retirement to grace its peaceful shades. 

Mr. James French being called upon, offered the following remarks and 
sentiment : 

Mr. Chairman: 

It cannot be expected that I should make a speech at this very late hour, 
after so many distinguished Sons have so highly entertained us with their 
eloquence. Yet I cannot remain silent under this liind and generous call. 

13* 



150 NEW HAMPSniRE FESTIVAL. 

Sir, we arc natives of one State, and adopted sons of another ; and are 
we not proud of them both ? [Yes, yes, yes.] 

If ever my heart throbs with emotions of pride, it is on reading the 
book which contains the speeches made in this hall on the 7th day of Nov. 
1849, by the noble sons of our native State. And those of us who had the 
honor of being present on that happy occasion, will long remember the grand, 
noble, patriotic bearing of that great man, Daniel Webster. [Sensation.] 
No man contributed more to, or took greater interest in preserving the 
records of that social festival, than he who then so ably presided over our 
festivities. 

In conclusion, permit me to offer the following sentiment : 

May the proceedings at this festival of the sons make a hook worthy to be read by tho 
dauglders; and may its perusal induce them to honor out future festivals with their presence. 

[Great Applause.] 
By David Bryant : 

New Hampshire Artisans ! Eenowned for their skill in mechanics, their labor finds a 
ready market at a, premium, in whatever region it is offered. 

By John Foster : 

The debt ]Vcw Hampshire boys owe New Hampshire mothers .' May tho obligation ever be 
honored, and the interest promptly met by duties well performed. 

By Milton Fuller, M. D., of Medford : 

The daughters of New Hampshire ! Their intelligence is our rainbow of promise ; their 
truth, our anchor of hope; their love, the fixed star that rules our destiny. 



^m jof Udu |]nni))sl)irt. 



Br nJlUR'ET FARLEY, Ei-EDITRESS OF THE "LOWELL OFFERING," — A DAtJCHTER OP 

KEW ILiMI'SHIRE. 

Sons of Xew Ilampshirel like the pilgrims olden, 

"Wandering from birth-place to a better home, 
Bearing still on the ark, and angels golden, 

In Avhose pure worship to this feast you come; 
Sous of Xew Hampshire! I, a daughter lowly. 
Would lay my " offering" on this shrine so holy. 

My orphan's mite ! the love that ne'er forgetting 
Those heavens that met at first my wandering eye, 

The broad green vales, and old Ascutney setting 
Ilis glistening brow against the eternal sky. 

The mountains high, in the far distance showing 

The broad Connecticut, in grandeur flowing. 



SENTIMENTS. 1-1 

Sons of New Hampshire! gathered near the ocean, 

Where many lands their luxuries combine, 
May it not be another " Boston notion" 

That this is better than those homes of thine? 
There the hard soil, with all its mountain grit. 
For any homo your souls and frames could fit. 

But from the altar you have raised so beauteous, 

AVith shorter speech than sigh, I turn away. 
Leaving a daughter's heart and greeting duteous 

With the strong brothers gathered here to-day. 
Sons of New Hampshire! each and all, adieu! 
A sister's benizon I leave with you. 



By Joseph Dowe : 

New Hampshire ! The first State to acknowledge perfect liberty of conscience in matter 
of religious faith, a i)rinciple which is the only true basis of all civil and religious liberty, 
and which is destined to spread over the whole habitable earth. 

By J. W. H. : 

The daughters of Niw Hampshire ! The fairest fruit and the sweetest flowers raised on 
her granite hills. 

By Joseph Greelv, Esq., of Nashua, New Hampsliire : 

Neiu Hampshire ! The best field for a nursery. Massachusetts ! The broadest and noblest 

field for action. 

Volunteer : 

Old Cheshire ! However highly civilized, may she never cease to have a worthy represen- 
tative in her Wilder sons. 



Written for the Festival of tj^e Sons of New Hampshire, at Boston, Nov, 2, 1853. 
Cy E. E. FRENCH, OP WASHINGTON, D. C. 

From East, West, North and South, 

Railroads here have roU'd us. 
Just because wo fear'd 

New Hampshire would'nt hold us. 

Farmers left their ploughs. 

Lawyers left their cases. 
All have hither como 

To greet New Uampshirj faces. 



]_52 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Mechanics, JMerchants, -with 
Sailors, and hosts of others 

Whc roam the -world's broad sphere, 
Come hero to meet as brothers. 

Years may onward roll, 

The -world grow cold and colder, 

Our hearts, in bonds of love. 
Grow -warmer as they're older. 

As wo meet to-night, 

And with pleasure fill them, 

Boston folks shall see 
That only death can chill them. 

A toast to close our song, — 
To honor truth and station, — 

"New IIami'Suike's noble son" 
"Who rules this mighty nation. 



By Samuel H. Gookin : 

The City of Boston ! Our mother-in-law. Though our native town claims and has our 
first love, yet her liberal and just policy secures our respect and admiration. 

By Mr. Bingham : 

The Sons of New Hampshire ! Like certain other sons mentioned of old, " when thoy 
Bee the daughters of men that they arc fair, tlicy take unto themselves wives of all which 
they choose; " and, like those other sons, " they raise up pretty tall gipnts of the land." 

By C. W. Sawyer : 

" The Old Folks at Home ! " May they have cause to be as proud of their children 
abroad, as we are honored in their patriotism, integrity, and virtue. 

By Dr. S. A. Lord : 

The Sons of New Hampshire ! May the principles of their mothers descend through 
them to their children. 

By John C. Dore : 

Our good old native State ! Her giant mountains, her giant sons, her giant daughters : 
" May their shadows never be less." 

By Horace Gr. Hutchins, Chief Marshal : 

The sous of New Hampshire resident in Boston and vicinity ! A Wilder set of good 
fellows a Marshall never presided over. 



SENTIMENTS. 



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Volunteer : 



The Temple of Liberty .' New Ilampshirc Las furnislicJ tlic granite for its pillars ; her 
sons have adorned them with the trophies of their j)atriotism! 



gl f 0ug, 



To (he Sous of JVciv Hampshire, at the Nexo Hampshire Festival, the following lines 
are rcspeetfully inscribed by the author. 

Wo meet to-day a liappy band, 

By common tics united ; 
The offspring of a generous land 

By love and learning lighted. 
And though removed from her fair bowers, 

By other hearthstones living, 
Yet we can ne'er forget the flowers 

That crown her bounteous giving. 

Iler verdant plains, her towering hills 

As heaven-built altars standing; 
Iler silvery lakes, her tuneful rills — 

Fair scenes of beauty's banding ; 
All, all are now before us spread, 

Eobed in their former glory. 
Untarnished by the moments sped. 

Like myths of olden story. 

And still our hopes are centered there, 

With many a kindly yearning. 
That she as now may e'er be fair, 

Uer lights as brightly burning. 
For wo remember evermore 

A parent's fond carcssings. 
And e'er will pray that heaven may pour 

On her its richest blessings ! 

That learning and religion's seats 

In purity may flourish. 
And ever in those green retreats 

Iler noble spirits nourish. 
That she may shine a guiding star 

In heaven-born splendor glowing, 
O'er all the wide, wide world afar 

Its genial radiance throwing! 

It was proposed to close this Festival by singing " Ajdd Lang Sijne,^'' 
witli an accompaniment by the Band ; alter which it was voted, on motion 
of Horace G. Hutchins, Esq., that we adjourn. 



25-t NEW HAMPSniRE FESTIVAL. 

Thus closed the Second Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire — like 
the first — in its inception, progress, and conclusion — happy and successful ; 
a scene long to be remembered with emotions of delight by all who partici- 
pated in its felicities. 



The Committee appointed by the Chair to call the next general meeting 
of the Sons of New Hampshire, consists of the following named gentlemen : 

George "W. Gordon, Rockingham. 
Samuel Gkeele, Hillsboro'. 
Charles A. Wells, Cheshire. 
Jonx P. Healy, Sullivan. 
James W. Paige, Merrimack. 
TnoMAS W. Pierce, Strafford. 
Daniel Taylor, Belknap. 
J. V. C. Smitu, Carroll. 
Charles B. Hall, Grafton. 
Robert I. Burbank, Coos 



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Spniltit-. 



Letters of invitation •were sent to many distinguished "Sons of New Hampshire," resident 
in their native or other States ; also to Hon. George S. IIillard, President of the 
" Sons of Maine," and from whom the following replies have been received. 

IFrom His Excdlency Governor Martin, of New Hampshire.} 

Dover, Oct. 24, 1853. 
GeJitlemen : 

Please accept my thanks for the invitation to the Festival of the " Sons 
of New Hampshire," on the 2d proximo, with which your kindness has 
honored me. I regret to say, that engagements beyond my control will 
prevent me from participating in the enjoyments of the occasion. 

It would be in the highest degree pleasurable to me to be present at the 
meeting of so much talent, enterprise and worth emanating from our native 
State as the assemblage will exhibit, as well as to witness the fraternal 
feeling, cordial sympathy, and ties of brotherhood which the occasion is so 
eminently calculated to in.spire and perpetuate. 

New Hampshire is proud of her sons, wherever they may be scattered or 
placed, for they fail not to represent her diligence, enterprise, morals and 
patriotism with fidelity, whether in the gi-eat field of productive industry, 
the commercial mart, the arena of professional exertion and competition, 
the exalted stations of political preferment, or the pur.-;uits of science and 
literature. 

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jgg NEW HAMPSHIRE TESTITAL. 

And when their laudable ambition shall have been sated — themselves and 
the communities of their adoption adequately benefited by their active pur- 
suits — she trusts they will heed that natviral impulse which by gentle but 
impressive whisj^erings inclines one to the scenes, haunts and skies of his 
childhood,, and seek their natal soil, there to enjoy the serene retirement of 
age and competence, and there to find ultimate repose with their ancestral 
kindred in her maternal bosom. 

With great respect, I am, 

Gentlemen, yours, sincerely, 

XOAn MARTIN. 
To Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, and ethers, 
Committee of Invitation. 



[From Hon. Geo. S. Hillard, Prcsidmt of the "Sons of Maine."] 

EosTox, Oct. 29, 1853. 
Dear Sir : 

I regret much that an engagement in a neighboring town will deprive me 
of the satisfaction of being present with the Sons of New Hampshire, at 
their Anniversary Festival, on the 2d day of November. As President of a 
kindred association, I feel a lively interest in the success and prosperity of 
that over which you preside, and an earnest wish that all your highest hopes 
of the good to be derived from it may be fulfilled. Could I be with you, I 
should feel, if not at home, at least in the next house to it ; and something 
of the home feeling would break through the partition wall. The wall that 
separates your native home from mine, though very high, is very thin. 

I enclose you the following sentiment, to be ofi"ered if opportunity should 
permit. 

Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine ! The three northern stars in our glcricus constel- 
lation. May their sons always see their light directly above their hearts. 

Your friend and obedient servant, 

GEO. S. IIILLAKD. 
Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, 
President of the Sons of New Hampshire. 



APPENDIX. .leQ 

[From iLn. Lkwis Cass, Senator from yruhigan.} 

Detuoit, October 21, 1853. 
(jrentlcmen : 

I am imicli obliged to you for the invitation to attend the Fe.stival of the 
Sons of Xow Hampshire, to be held at Boston on the second of November, 
and it would afford me much pleasure to accept it ■were I not prevented by 
overruling circumstances. As years pass over me, whatever changes they 
bring, I do not find that they weaken in the slightest degree my attachment 
to my native land. It is a never-dying feeling while life lasts, and there is 
not one of her sons who is more proud of her institutions, and more grateful 
for all they have done, and especially in the formation of the youthful 
character, than I am, though an emigrant of the last century from her 
territory. 

I am, gentlemen, respectfully, 

Your ob"t servant, 

LEWIS CASS. 
Hon. Marsh.ill P. Wilder, and others, 
Committee, &c. 



IFrom Hon. Charles Gordon Atherton, Senator from Kau Hampshire. *'\ 

Manchester, N. II., October 31, 1853. 
Gentlemen : 

As the time approaches for the Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire, 
it is with regret that I find myself here, as on a former occasion, immersed 
in the business of Court, with no prospect of being able to enjoy with you 
that interesting celebration. 

Accept my thanks for your kind and complimentary invitation, and 
believe me, that it is with sincere regret I am obliged to forego the pleasure 
of being present, 

I am, gentlemen, with great respect, 

Your friend and servant, 

C. G. ATHEIITON. 
The Ilon. Marshall P. Wilder, 
Committee. 

* I\Ir. Athcrton died Xovcmbcr 11th, after a short illness. 



][gQ NEW HAMPSniRE FESTIVAL. 

[JVo7/» Hon. Jons P. IIale, Ex-Scnator from iVcw IIamps?iire.'\ 

2sEW YoKK, October 24, 1853. 

Gentleynen : 

Your polite invitation to attend the Festival of the Sons of New Hamp- 
shire, on the second of November next, at Boston, was received some days 
since. I am greatly obliged thereby, and if it were necessary for me to 
attend to assure you how highly I appreciate the honor you have done mc, 
I certainly should do so, though at considerable inconvenience. 

If I were to fail in cherishing a most lively recollection of my native 
State, of the friends whom I have left there, and of those who have gone 
from thence, both the living and the dead, I should not only show myself 
destitute of the ordinary attributes of humanity, but should manifest the 
grossest ingratitude for the signal manifestations of kindness and regard 
which those friends have literally showered upon me in past years. But it 
is not necessary for me, I am sure, to endeavor to prove to you, gentlemen, 
nor to the company who will assemble with you, that I am not " the wretch ' 

" "Who never to himself hath said, 
This is my own, my native laud," 

nor to testify my regard for a land bound to me by so many ties as the State 
of New Hampshire, whether I consider her as the abode of friends still active 
on the theatre of life, or the nursing mother of a long list of honored dead, 
who, in their lifetime always held her in kind remembrance, and whose 
reputation shall ever illustrate her claim to the eminent regard of the 
friends of patriotism, liberty and eloquence. 

But, gentlemen, is there not some mistake in sending me this invitation ? 
I am not a resident of New Hampshire, nor of Boston, nor of Massachusetts, 
and am possessed of no position, official or any ather, which should entitle 
me to this distinction ; but simply a private individual who is being quietly 
and rapidly submerged in this great maelstrom of life and business, called 
the city of New York. But whether it be entirely a mistake or not, it will 
always be pleasant to remember, that before I was entirely buried and utterly 
forgotten, I was kindly remembered and noticed, last of all, by the sons of 
New Hampshire. 

With much respect, 

Your friend, 

JOUN P. HALE. 
Messrs. Marshall P. Wilder, and others, 
Com. of Sons of New Hampshire. 



APPENDIX. Igl 

[From. Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, Ex- Senator from New York.} 

BiNcnAMPTON, Oct. 2S, 1853. 
Gentlemen : 

It becomes necessary for mc to answer jour kind note, inviting me to 
attend the Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire, at Boston, on the 2d 
proximo, during a protracted and hiborious Circuit Court, in which my 
engagements are incessant, and I must crave your indulgence for the haste 
in which it is penned, and for its seeming lack of the true spirit of New 
England, to which I profess to be no stranger. Circumstances will not 
permit me to join in the interesting ceremonials, but I thank you for a 
remembrance so complimentary and generous; and with regards to the 
assembled sous of that cherished State, I have the honor to be, 

Sincerely yours, 

D. S. DICKINSON. 
Messrs. Marshall P. Wilder, and others, 
Committee, etc. 



[From Hon. JoUN ScllitAN, Attorney General of New Hampshire.'} 

Exeter, October G, 1853. 

Gentlemen : 

You have done me the honor to address to me a note of invitation to be 
present at the adjourned Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire, on the 
second of November next, and to present to me a complimentary ticket of 
admittance. For these marks of attention please to accept my warmest 
thanks. 

It must be the occasion of satisfaction to those who will there assemble, 
like a band of brothers, after a long interval of separation, to renew their 
fraternal attachments. It will be interesting to the sons of our State, 
whether they still reside at home, or whether they have removed to other 
States, mutually to testify their respect and affection for the place of their 
birth, the home of their childhood, and mutually to rejoice in each other's 
welfare. But a shadow will pass over the festivities of the hour, at the 
mournful reflection that since the last festival our State has lost some 
of her most distinguished sons, and our country some of her brightest orna- 
ments. Yet it is pleasing to reflect, that although they have passed away, 
they " still live," and v.ill always live in the memory and in the affections 
of their countrymen. 

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\QO NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

My official engagements, Avliicli are unavoidable, will prevent my partici- 
pating with you in the enjoyments of the festival. 

With very great respect I am, 

Gentlemen, your obedient servant, 

JOnisr SULLIVAN. 
To Marsuali. p. Wilder, Esq., and other gentlemen, 
Committee of Invitation. 



[From Ex-Govcrnor IIen'ry IlrncARD.] 

CuARLESTOwx, Octobcr 24, 1853. 

My Dear Sir : 

I received the letter of invitation from the committee of which you are 
Chairman, asking me to be present in the city of Boston on the second day 
of November nest, and then and there to unite with the sons of my native 
State in the contemplated Festival. Nothing could give me greater pleasure. 
I had the happiness to be present at the Festival of the Sons of New Hamp- 
shire which took place in your city within a few years, when that distin- 
guished statesman, patriot and scholar, the Hon. Daniel Webster, presided. 
He has been gathered to his fathers, ripe in years and full of glory. This 
dispensation nmst cast a gloom over your meeting. All that survivors can 
do, is to keep in remembrance his public services which continued for so 
long a period, and it must be a source of. peculiar gi-atification to those sons 
of the Granite State who will be present at your Festival, that this great 
man was with them a native son of New Hampshire. It cannot with truth 
be said, that among the native sons of our State now residing within the 
limits of your city there is not enterprise, intelligence, industry, perseve- 
rance and true patriotism in full proportion which their numbers bear to the 
whole population. It would be invidious to designate individuals who have 
distinguished themselves in their callings. In the first class of your mer- 
chants the sons of New Hampshire may be found. Among your mechanics 
and tradesmen will be found a full share who had their origin in my own 
native land. And I should be doing violence to my own feelings if I failed 
to refer to the learned professions in your city, and to your favored univer- 
sity, as furnishing descendants of our soil conferring honor on themselves, 
regarded as professional men or as scientific professions. 

It is matter of just pride to the sons of New Hampshire, wheresoever they 
may be found, that one of their own number now presides over the destinies 
of this great and glorious confederacy, and that two others among the 



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prominent candidates for the presidency at the last election were born in 
our own State. 

I have, my dear sir, nothing further to add, only to say that I find it will 
be impossible for me to be present at the approaching Festival. I have 
delayed answering the letter of the committee until now, in the hope that I 
might make such arrangements as would enable me to be with you, which 
I so much desire. But that can not be. Engagements in the western part 
of New York will unavoidably so confine me as to leave me no hope of 
beicg in Boston on the coming second November. 
I am, sir, 

With every consideration of respect. 
Your ob't servant, 

HENRY HUBBARD. 
Hon. Marshall P. "Wilder, Chairman, anil others 
of the Committee of Invitation, etc. 



iFrom Hon. J. J. Gilchrist, Chief Justice nf the Superior Court of New Hampshirc.'\ 

Charlestown, N. II., 14th Oct., 1853. 

My Bear Sir : 

I regret very much that the pressure of my engagements will deprive me 
of the pleasure of being present at the Festival of the Sons of New Hamp- 
shire, on the 2d of November. 

I am, very respectfully. 

Yours, 



J. J, GILCHRIST. 



To Marshali, p. TTildek, 
for the Committee of Invitation, etc. 



[From lion. Samcel D. Bell, Justice nf the Superior Court of New Hampshire.'^ 

Manchester, October 7, 1853. 
Gentlemen : 

Your favor, inviting me to attend the Festival of the Sons of New 
Hamp.shire at Boston, on the second of November nest, is gratefully re- 
ceived. It would afibrd great pleasure to meet the association upon 
that occasion. Their ability, intelligence and enterprise, have given them 
a high place among their fellow citizens of Massachusetts, while success in 



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NEW UAMPSniRE FESTIVAL. 



that wider field has not made them forgetful of their native mountains. 
New Hampshire may well be proud to reckon them among her jewels. 

I regret that my engagements will deprive me of the pleasure of being 
present. 

Very respectfully, 

Yours, etc., 

SAMUEL D. BELL. 
Hon. Messrs. Marshall P. Wilder, Charles G. Greene, 
and others, Committee. 



\From lion. Ira A. Eastman, Judge of ike Superior Court of New Hampshire.} 

GiLMANTOx, N. IL, October 29, 1853. 
Gentlemen : 

I have had the honor to receive yours of the first instant, inviting me to 
attend the adjourned Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire. Absence 
from home and official engagements have delayed my giving you an earlier 
answer. I highly commend the object of this Festival, and it would afibrd 
me the greatest pleasure to attend, were not my engagements sucli as to 
place it beyond my power. 

New Hampshire may well be proud of her sons residing in other States, 
scattered as they are to a number exceeding a hundred thousand, and dwell- 
ing in every State and territory throughout our vast domain ; and of none 
may she be more proud than of the thousands who reside in Massachusetts. 
Accept, gentlemen, the assurances of my high regard for you personally. 
I have the honor t® be. 

Very respectfully, 

Your ob't servant, 

IRA A. EASTMAN. 
To Marshall P. Wilder, and others, 
Committee, &.C. 



[From Hon. Andrew S. "Woods, Judge of the Superior Court of New Hampshire.'] 

Bath, October 29, 1853. 
Gentlemen : 

An unexpected call to the discharge of official duty will detain me from 
the festivities of the Sons of New Hampshire, on the second of November. 



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The occasion must be one of great interest, and nothing short of a strong 
necessity would cause me to forego the pleasure of it. 

Very respectfully, 

ANDREW S. WOODS. 
Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, and others, 
Committee of Invitation. 



IFrom Hon. IrA Perley, Ex-Judge of the Superior Court of New Hampshire.} 

CoxcoRD, October 12, 1853. 

Ge7itlemen : 

I thank you very heartily for your invitation to attend the adjourned 
Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire, on the second of November next. 
I regret very deeply that my engagements will deprive me of the pleasure 
of meeting with you on that occasion. 

Most respectfully, 

Your ob't servant, 

IRA PERLET. 

To Marshall p. Wilder, Esq., and others, 
Committee of Invitation. 



\^From Ho7i. William Plcjier, Ex-Mcmhcr of Congress.'} 

EpnxG, October 25, 1S53. 
Gentlemen : 

In answer to your invitation to attend the Festival of tlie Sons of New 
Hampshire, on the second of November, permit me to assure you that I 
would do so with great pleasure, if a previous engagement did not require 
my being in another place on that day. With pleasure should I be with 
you ; yet would that pleasure be mingled with some painful recollections of 
the past. Allow me to touch on one of these, personal to myself. At our 
former meeting a letter from my father, the late Governor I'lumer, was 
laid before you by the illustrious individual who then so happily presided 
over our festivities. The words of kind commendation and applause with 
which that letter was communicated by him, and the warm welcome which 
it received from you, sunk deep into my heart ; and when reported by me 
to the honored object of your approbation, they soothed for him the decline 
of life, with the grateful assurance that his long term of public service was 



\QQ NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

lield in respectful remembrance by that distinguisbed assembly of tbe sons 
of New Hampshire. 

Pleasing, therefore, yet mournful to me, are the recollections of the past, 
as connected with that assembly. Nor am I solitary in my regrets. There 
are others who have kindred griefs. Four years only have elapsed since 
our former meeting ; yet what changes have they not produced ! He, the 
son of New Hampshire of whom every other son is justly proud, is no 
longer with you at the festive board. He, too, has passed beyond the cen- 
sure and the applause of his fellow men. Nor has he gone alone or unat- 
tended to his rest. Of those who, on that occasion, bore a part in our 
festival, or were among its invited guests, how many have already ceased 
from their labors among us ! Besides the two already mentioned, there 
will readily occur to you the respected names of Appleton, Atherton, Bell, 
Bartlett, Dearborn, Henderson, Livermore, Miller, McNeill, Twitchell, and 
Woodbury ; a bead-roll of merit, on which the sons of New Hampshire 
may well reflect with mingled emotions of pride and regret. In reference 
to these and our other departed worthies, permit me to offer you, as a sen- 
timent appropriate to the occasion. 

The Dead of New HampsJiire ! They live in our memories; may their virtues reappear in 
our lives. 

WILLIAM PLUMER. 

The Committee of Invitation. 



[From lion. Aiios Tuck, Ex-Member of Congress.'] 

Cuic^co, Illinois, October 13, 1853. 
Dear Sir : 

While temporarily absent from Exeter, I have received your kind invita- 
tion and complimentary card, to attend the Festival of the Sons of New 
Hampshire, in Boston, on the second of November. I regret that my con- 
tinued absence in the West will probably prevent my enjoying the happy 
festivities of the occasion. Greatly obliged for your consideration, I am, 
Very respectfully. 

Your obedient servant, 

AMOS TUCK. 
Hon. Marshall P. TVilder, for the 
Committee of Invitation. 



APPENDIX. 1Q~ 

[Froyn Hon. HORACE GnEELEV, Editor of the Kiw York Tribune'^ 

New Youk, November 1, 3 r. m. 
Gentlemen : 

At the last moment, I am compelled to decline your kind invitation to 
attend your Festival to-morrow. I regret this the more, as I recognize 
several personal friends among your number, some of whom I have barely 
met since I left our native State, more than thirty years ago. 

It is well that those who can should meet to remember, under such genial 
and pleasant auspices, the rocky home of our childhood. It is not so agree- 
able, but seems even more imperative, that some of us should remain else- 
where, engaged in labors which cannot be put aside or postponed. On 
behalf of these, let me venture to propose a sentiment : 

New Hampshire! Maylicr granite rocks and piercing blasts long ripen sens worthy to 
succeed her hardy pioneers, and daughters pure as her winter vesture, and fair us her sum- 
mer bloom. 

Yours, truly. 



HORACE GREELEY. 



Marshall P. Wilder, Esq. 



[From Hon. JoSErn Healv, Er-3Icmbcr-of Congress."] 

"\YAsnixGTOx, N. H., October 26, 1853. 

Geyitlemen : 

Your obliging invitation to me to attend the Festival of the Sons of Ncv»' 
Hampshire, in Boston, on the second of the next month, is received. I 
should be most happy to avail myself of the occasion to meet the gentlemen 
who will assemble there, if it were in my power to do so ; but the infirmities 
which nearly fourscore years have brought upon me, oblige me to forego 
that pleasure, and allow me to make no return for your politeness other 
than my most cordial thanks, which I pray you to accept. 

But, gentlemen, though I shall be absent, my thoughts and my hearty 
good wishes will be with you. I shall fancy myself to be almost in your 
midst, and shall share with you in all the feelings of joy and of solemnity 
which the occasion is calculated to afford and inspire, — of joy, in the ex- 
change of friendly salutations, in the calling up of pleasant memories of 
other days, and in whatever is said or done connected with the honor and 
renown of the State which had our earliest regard and allegiance, and will 
have our latest and best wishes for its continued prosperity and good name ; 
of solemnity, in view of the seats at your festive board made vacant since 
your former assemblage by the hand of death. 



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He who presided on that occasion, New Hampshire's most gifted and 
honored son, his voice is hushed forever ! ]3ut his words of eloquence then 
uttered, are still reverberating among the nations of the earth, causing the 
despots of the old world to reel upon their thrones, and carrying hope and 
encouragement to the oppressed every where. Let us, who survive him, 
gather up the lessons of wisdom which he taught, be made better by the 
example which he set, and cherish his fame which fills the civilized world. 

I am, with very true regard, 

Yours, etc., 

JOSEPH HEALY. 
Hon. Marshall P. "Wilder, and others, 
Committee of Invitation. 



[From Hon. Aarox Matson, Ex-Member of Congress.'^ 

Newport, N. H., October 29, 1S53. 
Gentlemen : 

I have received your invitation to attend the Festival of the Sons of New 
Hampshire, to be held in Boston on the second day of November nest, for 
which please accept my cordial thanks. 

Although eighty-three winters have shed their frosts upon my head and 
partially veiled my eyes from the blessed light of day, yet my constitution 
is sound, my health good, and my heart as buoyant and joyous as ever. 
Therefore I am sincere when I assure you that I could most heartily enjoy 
the festive occasion to which you have invited me. But distance and the 
want of sight admonish me to forego the honor I would, under other 
circumstances, gladly accept. 

I am, gentlemen, 

Very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 

AARON MATSON. 
To tlic lion. Marshall P. 'Wilder, aad others, 
Committee, etc. 



APPENDIX. -i/^Q 

[From Hon. Robert Ingalls.] 

,, „ ,„ Shelburne, Oct. 27, 1853. 

Hon. M. P. Wilder, 

and other So?is of New Hampshire, at Boston : 

It would have been to me exceedingly pleasant indeed — I can hardly 
conceive of anything more so — than to have accepted your very kind and 
flattering invitation to attend the coming Festival of the Sons of New 
Hampshire, at Boston ; nothing" but public duty would retard from so doing. 

As a citizen of New Hampshire, I ever like the phrase, whether it per- 
tains to those yet struggling with the fatigues and hardships of this rugged 
clime, or to those who have sought a distant field, better adapted to their 
stalwai't stride. 

I have now spent a long life amongst these aged mountains and stupen- 
dous elevations — they are my almost daily association ; but hard and 
unpolished as they are, I yet cling to them as objects dear, and am induced 
to believe this attachment not merely visionary, from the fact that those of 
our most distinguished sons who have been induced to change their residence, 
and have distinguished themselves so nobly in their new field of action, 
never forget New Hampshire, the land of their sires. 

Whether we change or retain our citizenship, let us ever consider our- 
selves an association for promoting, by every pure, refined, and hoi}' 
principle, the onward march of the descendants of our old family to the 
highest elevation of human fame. 

I presume that you will not deem it inappropriate during your festive 
hours, to pay an additional tribute to the memory of the immortal Webster, 
the country's and the world's benefactor ; not forgetting the career of our 
late lamented Ichabod Bartlctt, whose memory may well be cherished for 
ages to come for the high order of talent he possessed, and for the honorable 
and elevated stand he ever maintained in every position of his brilliant 
life. 

Accept my repeated thanks for your kind invitation, on which I shall 
reflect with a heartfelt pride. 

I am your ob't servant, 

ROBERT INGALLS. 



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1'JQ NETT UAMPSniRE FESTITAL. 

[From Alfred Langdon Elwvx, M. D.] 

PniLADELPniA, October lltb, 1853. 

My Dear Si?- : 

May I, through you, return my very sincere and grateful thanks to the 
Committee of the Sons of New Hampshire, for their invitation to the Fes- 
tival on the second of next November. 1 accept the invitation with great 
pleasure, but with hesitation, as it is a season in which I am not my own 
master, and though now I think I may be able to be with you, yet some- 
thing is very likely to occur that may deprive me of the pleasure. 

But if it be possible, I know of nothing that will bo more agreeable than 
to shake hands with a thousand or more hai'dy and intelligent " Graniteers," 
men who reflect high honor on their native State. 

Sincerely yours, 

A. L. ELWYN. 
lion. Marshall P. Wilder, Chairman. 



[Frorn lion. LoRKXZO Saeink, Ex-Mcinhcr of Coyigrcss.^ 

FKAMiXGiiAJr, October 31, 1853. 

My Dear Sir : 

I have to thank you for the invitation to the " Festival of the Sons of 
New Hampshire," on the second of November. Engagements, made previous 
to the receipt of your note, and not, I fear, to be postponed without injury 
to others, may not allow me to attend. But I desire to connect myself in 
some way or another, with the men of the Hills and of the Granite, who, 
like myself, have become citizens of the mother State of the north. 

May I be allowed to say then, first, that while my family descent and the 
place of my birth are matters of no concern to anybody in the wide world, 
yet, as I continually meet gentlemen who assume that my parents were 
En'^lish, or British American, I would avail myself of this occasion to 
correct such an impression. Shall I be excusable for the additional 
remark, that both of my grandfathers helped to achieve the independence 
of our country — the one, under Stark, at Bennington; the other, under 
Washington, at Trenton. 

I am a native of the county of Grafton. Well do the recollections of 
my boyhood go back to the Ox-bow, with the beauties around it — to Haver- -. 
hill Corner, where the " Barlow knives " and the wondrous stocks of ginger- 
bread kept in the shops tempted me to open the little wooden wafer-box 
which contained my savings, and made me bankrupt. 

Well, too, do I remember my emotions when crossing the rough, frail 



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bridges -which spanned the mild Ammonoosuk, and when gazing upon the 
mountains of Franconia, and " the gothic battlements of the White Hills." 

I have not seen either since the year 1821. On my last visit, my friend 
Governor Kent — who by the by, is one of the best fellows I know of — 
was a travelling companion a part of the way. Six horses were attached 
to the stage, and passengers rode with the driver on the top, and with the 
luggage. We walked up the hills just as Jeremiah Smith told his second 
wife his first wife did ; and, in a word, had a weary day of it. 

In Chester we killed a black snake of monstrous size, which we bound 
to the baggage-rack of the coach, and carried in triumph to Concord. A 
crowd greeted us as we drove up at the hotel, and our prize was soon seen 
by hundreds. The Governor, I think, had about completed his studies at 
Harvard University. As for myself, I had parted with my widowed mother 
in Maine, to seek my fortune. You hardly ever knew — unless wiser than 
most — a New Hampshire boy who, at the start, possessed either money or 
friends ; and so this part of my story may be left to your imagination. 

The next time I saw Kent, he was Mayor of the city of Bangor. He 
wore a towering white hat — as sleek as his face — and sported a large 
magisterial cane, and seemed to me a mighty big man. The affray with 
the snake occurred to me in a moment ; but it was not meet that a humble 
fish dealer of the frontier should thrust himself unbidden upon the notice 
of the " Mayor," and so I passed him in silence. As soon, however, as I 
became a " Lyceum-lecturer," I reminded his worship of the adventure in 
Chester, and found that his recollection of it was as fresh as my own. We 
have not failed to recount the m.irvellous feat whenever we have met, from 
that day to the present. Few serpents of the creeping kind live, I suppose, 
in the memory of man for the space of thirty-two years. 

I pass intervening events at a single bound. You cannot but have a good 
time on the second. You will dwell upon the "sons" who espoused the 
Whig side in the war of the revolution. You will not forget the " sons " 
who have won enviable renown in the councils of the nation. But it is 
quite possible that some good men, who adhered to the royal cause in '76, 
may escape the notice of all. May I meekly suggest that, on this high 
Festival-day, the feeling of brotherhood should be permitted to have its full 
flow, and to prevail over mistakes committed two generations ago. A great 
people now, we can afford to be both just and generous towards those who, 
born British subjects, preferred to live and die in allegiance to the crown. 
I venture then to offer a sentiment in memory of 

John AVen'TWORTH — The last Governor of the British province of New Hampshire, and the last 
Surveyor General of the King's woods in New England: — his eminent literary taste and 
attaiaments — his successful exertions to secure to Dartmouth College its charter rights — 



172 ^^^ HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

his love of, and zeal in, agriculture — his unwearied attention to all the interests of his 
people, made him for a time, their idol ; hut a " loyalist" he died — a cast-a-way, and in 
exile. Let us forget his errors, and treasure only his yirtues, and his services to his native 
colony — to our native State. 

Meaning after all this talk on paper, to be with you if in my power,^ 
I am, dear sir, 

Truly your friend and servant, 

LORENZO SABINE. 
Hon. jMarsuall P. "Wilder, President 

Association Sons of New Hampshire. 



[From Professor SnVKT'LE.vv, Dartmouth Collegc.'\ 

Hanover, Octohcr 2G, 1853. 
Gentlemen : 

Permit me to express to you my sense of obligation for the honor of an 
invitation to attend the Festival of the Sous of New Hampshire. 

Having, in my boyhood, been adopted by this State ; having been fanned 
for sixty-six years by the breezes from her granite hills, nourished by the 
products of her exuberant, though hardy soil, educated by the means which 
her institutions afford, and performed the labors of a protracted life among 
her sons and citizens, I regret that my infirm health compels me to decline 
the invitation to be present at the coming festival. But, hoping to be there 
in imagination and feeling, I subscribe myself, with high regard to the occa- 
sion, 

Your friend and obedient servant, 

ROSWELL SnURTLEFF. 
To Marshall P. Wilder, and others, 
the Committee, etc. 



[From Professor Up HAM, Bowdoin College.'\ 

Bru.vswick, Me., October 15, 1853. 
Gentlemen : 

In answer to your kind invitation to attend the Festival of the Sons of 
New Hampshire, to be held in the city of Boston on the second of Novem- 

* Mr. S. was present, hut as he was suffering from indisposition he declined to speak. 
The ofScers of the Association, desirous of connecting his name with the Festival, place his 
letter in their account of the proceedings. 



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ber, I regret to say, that the duties which I am called to discharge here 
will render it difficult, and, I think, inapossible, for me to be present on 
that interesting occasion. 

I am not insensible, however, of the honor which is done me by your 
invitation ; and I feel that you have conferred a benefit upon " me, at this 
period of my life, and after recently returning from a journey amid other 
scenes in distant lands, in reminding me of the home of my youth, and in 
awaking a thousand associations which make that home dear to me. It is 
many years since I left my native State ; but her streams, her hills, her 
mountains, the valleys where I strayed, the flow^crs that grew among the 
rocks, the associates of those early days, in the glow of youth and in the 
brightness of beauty, all exist like living pictures in my memory, and have 
become a part of my existence. The fame of commonwealths does not de- 
pend exclusively upon the greatness of their wealth, or the extent of their 
territories. New Hampshire is a small republic ; but if the fulfilments of 
her future history should correspond to the beginnings and presages of the 
past, she is destined to an immortal memory. 

When I was quite a child, and before my mind had expanded itself to 
the comprehension of our great nationality, I had formed some ideas of the 
boundaries, the physical features, and the history of the little State which 
we love. In the neighborhood in which I lived was the town library, 
and, as my father was one of the associated owners, I was not long in ex- 
ploring a portion of its few hundred volumes ; and I think that no volume 
interested me more, at that early period, than Belknap's History of New 
Hampshire. It was in that excellent work, which combines great learning 
and candor with the merits of a simple and classic style, that I learned 
something of the trials of the early settlers of the State, the history of 
some of the distinguished men under the colonial government, and the part 
taken by New Hampshire in the revolutionary struggle. It was then that 
I first became acquainted with the names of Weare, Stark, Sullivan, and 
Langdon ; and learned that the sons of New Hampshire had an influence 
beyond their own territorial limits, and could make their proud mark on a 
nation's history. And from that day to this I have endeavored to make 
myself acquainted with the life and labors of the many distinguished men, 
of different religious and political views and associations, but all allied to- 
gether by the love of truth and the claims of patriotism, who have been 
the ornaments and the just pride of the State. I listened with delight in 
early life, — and as I recall it now, it seems but yesterday, — to the minute 
legal learning of Smith, the matchless reasonings of Mason, and the touch- 
ing and perfected eloquence of George Sullivan, the worthy son of a justly 
celebrated father. And who, among the numerous children of New Hamp- 

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174 NEW HAMPSniRE FESTIVAL. 

sliire, wlierever they may be scattered, has not known something of the par- 
liamentary and forensic achievements of her most distinguished son, whose 
life has recently closed, and whose name has already passed into history. 
That was a great light which was not confined to a single State, nor even 
to the nation which it illuminated, but reached to other lands. I was in 
Europe at the time he was called out of the world ; and from beyond the 
waves of the Atlantic, many Americans and many Europeans saw the splen- 
dor of his setting sun go down ; and not without tears. 

Permit me to say, gentlemen, that I love our State, and that I love her 
people. There is strength in her rocks ; there is inspiration in her moun- 
tains. It is in such a rugged surface as that of New Hampshire, hard and 
inflexible, and therefore uninviting to weakness of purpose and indolence 
of habits, but diversified with every form of grandeur and sublimity, that 
the mind harmonizes with nature in developing noble thoughts and energetic 
purposes. Those rugged rocks and lofty mountains have a power over the 
heart as well as over the intellect, a power of association and attraction 
little known to those who have not felt it. And hence it is, that her sons, 
scattered abroad in dlficrcnt and distant places, always go back to her rivers 
and mountains, and take a last look of them before they die. In common 
with many others, I felt my heart moved within me, when I have seen from 
year to year the great departed orator to whom I have referred, bend away 
his stop that shook the capitol, and plant his foot upon his native hills. 
He loved to stand by the side of those rivers ; he loved to breathe that na- 
tive air ; and from the height of the mountains which he had gazed upon 
and traversed in his youth, he seemed to look abroad with a greater dis- 
tinctness, and embrace, with a clearer and wider vision, the present and 
future destiny of men and nations. 

I believe, therefore, that in the mountains of New Hampshire is to be 
found in part the secret of her strength. They are originators of thought, 
and nurseries of the imagination. They give strength and development to 
the religious sentiment. And the time may yet come, when they will be 

found to be the strong-holds of freedom. 

THOMAS C. UPHAM. 
To Messrs. "Wilder, Greene, and others. 



APPENDIX. itrg 

[From Hon. N. Gilmax.] 

Exeter, N. II., October 29tli, 1853. 
Gentlemen : 

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your invitation to the 
Festival of the 2d of November, of the Sons of New Hampshire. I greatly 
regret that a business engagement to a distant city will deprive nie of the 
pleasure of participating in the festivities of that highly interesting occa- 
sion. 

Absence from home must be my apology for this late answer to your 
polite invitation. 

I am, with great respect, 

Your ob't servant, 

N. GILMAN. 
Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, and others. 

Committee, Boston. i 

\ 



[From Rev. RALPH Ejiersox, D. D,, Professor in the Theological Seminary. 1 

Andover, October 29, 1853. 
Gentlemen : 

A recent mail has brought me your kind invitation to the adjourned Fes- 
tival of the Sons of New Hampshire. You will please to accept my thanks 
for this honor, and be assured of the pleasure it will afford me to be present 
on that occasion, unless prevented by some unforeseen occurrence. 

With great respect. 

Yours truly, 

RALPH EMERSON. 
To Marshall P. Wilder, 
and others of the Committee of Invitation. 

P. S. Allow me to send, in honor of my birthplace, the following senti- 
ment, to be presented at the Festival, if thought expedient, provided I shall 
not be present : 

The pleasant town of Hollis ! Distinguished as having educated for the Christian minis- 
try a larger portion of her sons than any other town in New England, except Southampton, 

Mass. 

R. E. 



Y^Q NEW HAMPSniRE FESTIVAL. 

IFrom Rev. Brown Emerson, D. D.] 

Salem, October 28, 1853. 
Dear Sir : 

I would tender througli jou my grateful acknowledgments for the honor 
of an invitation to the Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire, in Boston, on 
the second day of the ensuing November, and only regret that my engage- 
ments are such as to prevent my attendance on the interesting occasion. 

With due I'cspect, 

BROWN EMERSON. 



[From Rev. Abiel Abbot, IJ. -D.] 

Peterborough, October 24, 1853. 
Gentlemen : 

I thauk you for the honor of an invitation to the Festival of the Sons of 
New Hampshire, to be held on the second of November. The infirmities of 
four score and eight years forbid my compliance with the[invitation. 

It affords me great pleasure to know that the sons of New Hampshire 
who emigrate, do not forget the homes of their boyhood, and do so much 
honor to their native State and service to our country. Although unable to 
attend the Festival in body, I shall in mind be present. 

Permit me to express this ardent wish of my heart, sons of New Hamp- 
shire, continue to honor your fathers, and acquire noble honors for your sons. 

Your servant,* 

ABIEL ABBOT. 
To MARsnALL p. Wilder, Daniel Taylor, Fletcher Webster, and others, 
Committee of Invitation. 



[ From Rev. J. G. Adams, Worccstcr.'\ 

Worcester, Ms., October 31, 1853. 
Gentlcmeji : 

I have to regret that other engagements will not permit me to be present 
at the second Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire, as I was at the first. 
For your kind invitation to this banquet, accept my warmest thanks. And 
since I shall be with you only in spirit, permit me to offer my fraternal 
congratulations to these who may on that occasion meet face to face, and 



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also to say, that much as I love Massachusetts, and happy as I have found 
my home in it for the last fifteen years, still I have not lived here long 
enough to outgrow my first love for my native New Hampshire. Next to 
my bible and other religious guide-books in my study, I keep sacred the 
volumes reminding me of my primal home, the "Annals of Portsmouth," my 
native town, the "New Hampshire Historical Collections," the "New 
Hampshire Book," and others which I need not name. These are among 
my heart-treasures, and will be while I have any such treasures on this 
broad earth. New Hampshire's rural homes, its rivers, lakes and mountain 
ranges, are still bright pictures in memory, and whenever I come near the 
northern line of the old Bay State, a sight of the blue summits beyond it is 
as cheerini]' to me as Sir Waltku Scott assures us the sijrht of "the heather" 
was to him. I thank one of our own New Hampshire poets of the present 
time for words to which my own soul and that of every son of that " land 
of the mountain dominion " can respond : 

" We ask for no hearts that are truer, 
No spirits more gifted than thine, 
No skies that are warmer and bluer, 
Than dawn on the hemlock and pine. 
Ever pure are the breezes that herald thee forth, 
Green land of my fathers, thou rock of the North." 

I send you this sentiment : 

The sons of New Hampshire ! At home or abroad, in their own and in the world's future 
history, may their advocacy and defence of human freedom and progress be as proverbial 
for endurance as the granite hills of the State that gave them birth. 

Kespectfully yours, 

J. G. ADAMS. 
To Hon. Marshall P. ■Wilder, and others, 
Committee, etc. 



[From Hon. Edmund Burke, late Commissioner of Patents at Washington.} 

Newport, N. II., October 20, 1S53. 
Gentlemen : 

Unavoidable professional engagements will deprive me of the plca.sure of 
accepting your invitation to attend the Festival of the Sons of New Hamp- 
shire, to be held in the city of Boston on the second of Noveml)cr next. 

It is a source of pride and gratification to every New Hampshire man to 



X78 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

see SO many of the virtuous and wortlay sons of that State filling high and 
respectable positions in the learned professions, and in all the departments 
of business in the great city of their adopted State — a city whose popula- 
tion, wealth, and enterprise, justly entitle it to be regarded as the metrop- 
olis of New England. But, while New Hampshire has given many of her 
precious jewels to adorn the brow of their adopted mother, we are conscious 
that they blend their lustre with native jewels equally as precious and bril- 
liant, forming together a coronet of glittering gems such as no other State 
can boast. 

Nor are we who remain at home unmindful of the fact that Massachusetts 
first gave to New Hampshire many of the sires and mothers of the sons who 
have returned to adorn and honor their fatherland. We, therefore, of both 
States, can take a just pride in this beautiful spectacle of a reunion of 
kindred blood upon the soil of our forefathers — a soil whose history is 
illustrated by the sublime courage of the Pilgrim who dared the perils of 
the stormy ocean and the inhospitable wilderness, for " freedom to worship 
God ; " by the first blood spilt on this continent in resistance to tyranny ; 
and by the grandest and noblest monuments of industry, guided by intellect 
and genius to its high achievements. 

I am, gentlemen, with great respect, 

Your obedient servant, 

EDMUND BUEKE. 
To the lion. Marshall P. "Wilder, and others, 
Committee. 



[From Hon. IsAAC McCoNIDE.] 

Tkoy, N". Y., October 20, 1853. 

Gentlemen : 

On the receipt of your kind invitation to the Festival of the Sons of New 
Hampshire, at Boston, on the 2d proximo, I answered that I would attend 
unless, by some cause unforeseen, I should be prevented. 

I regret that public duties will compel me to forego the pleasure which I 
anticipated enjoying in meeting many valued friends on that occasion whom 
I had not seen for many years. I am gratified and thank you for the 
opportunity thus afforded me of expressing my affection for my fatherland, 
and of calling up reminiscences of my youthful days, and of traditionary 
tales of the first settlement and first settlers (my father being a direct 
descendant of one of the first settlers, and an original proprietor of Lon- 



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donderry,) of my progress to manhood, and of the tutelage of my Alma 
Mater, Dartmouth College. New Hampshire has been my Mecca, to which, 
since I have been a resident here, I have made frequent pilgrimages, always 
calling my birthplace my home ; and can I ever forget it ? 

" Oh no, I can never forget 

The home of my childhood's love; 
In my heart it lingers yet, 

And to that my thoughts still rove." 

Although I cannot be with you in person, I hope to be in spirit, (as 
these are the days of spirits,) to mingle in the festivities of the day, which 
will not be forgotten by me here. 

Please accept for yourselves and those you represent, my profound 
acknowledgments for your polite invitation, with a sincere wish that your 
festival may be one of great enjoyment, and that you may live to sec and 
enjoy many others. 

With the highest respect, I have the honor to be 

Your obedient, humble servant, 

ISAAC McCOXinE. 
Messrs. Marshall P. AVilder, Fletcdeu Webstek, 
and others, Committe. 

The following sentiment is offered, if there should be a place for it : 

The Sons nf New Hampshire ivho have migrated to Boston .' They have been and arc an 
honor to their native State, and to the city of their adoption. 



[From Hon. JoEL Eastjian.] 

Conway, October 25, 1853. 
Gentlej)ie?i : 

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of invitation 
to the " adjourned Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire," te be held in 
the city of Boston on the second of November. 

1 have been delaying an answer to your note, to see if it might not be 
possible for me so to arrange my business as to enable me to be present and 
participate in the enjoyments which that occasion will be so well calculated 
to afford. 

Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to meet the sons of my 
native State now resident in the old Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with 



180 N^^ HAMPSniKE FESTIVAL. 

many of whom I have the honor of a personal acquaintance. But owing to 
indispensable engagements connected with the Courts, I have to regret my 
inability to accept your invitation. 

With much respect, I am 

Your ob't servant, 

JOEL EASTMAN. 
To Marshall P. Wilder, and others, 
Committee of Invitation. 



[From Hon. B. B. French.] 

W'Asni.xGTox City, October 25, 1853. 
Gentlemen : 

I have been honored by your polite invitation and complimentary ticket 
to Attend the Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire on the second day of 
November next. 

Second only to the pride I feel in being a son of New Ilampshire, is that 
of being so kindly remembered by you. 

I wish it were in my power to be with you, but it is not. An engage- 
ment here on the very day of your Festival is imperative upon me, and tics 
me to this city. 

Accept, gentlemen, my thanks for your kind recollection of me, and my 

ardent wishes that the Festival may do honor to those who have taken so 

deep an interest in it, together with the assurance that few things in this 

world could give more pleasure than to be present. 

Your brother of New Hampshire, 

E. B. FRENCH, 
Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, and others. 
Committee, etc. 



[Froin Hon. Saiiuel Wells.] 

Portland, October 22, 1853. 
Geiitlemen: 

Your invitation to attend the Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire, 
on the second day of November, has been received, but my engagements 
will prevent an acceptance of it. 

It would be gratifying to me to unite with you in the expected festival, 



APPENDIX. 1«, 

for it is always pleasant to meet tlic sons of New Hampshire, especially 
those who have emigrated from that State. Emigrants feel for each other a 
strong sympathy, when the circumstances under which they departed from 
the home of their ancestors were somewhat similar. And most of those 
who have left that State, have sought fairer opportunities for improving 
their condition. They felt in some measure the narrowness of their affiiirs 
and desired a broader field for action. And they went out ; and wherever 
civilization extends, there they are found, and there they dwell. They fol- 
low all the various employments of life, in the city and in the country, on 
the land and on the sea. They receive a ready and cordial welcome in 
every clime. 

The blood of several nations mingles in their veins. Many Enirli.^h, 
Irish and Scotch settled in New Hampshire, and formed no inconsiderable 
part of its population. And they were not men of an inferior class, but 
were industrious, intelligent, and lovers of liberty. They were principally 
dcvoted to agriculture, that employment which has been truly said to be 
" nearest heaven." 

" Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, 
Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke." 

The revolution found them true to the principles of freedom, and ready to 
fight its battles. Hatred of oppression was in them an innate sentiment. 
They could not patiently wear the yoke of tyranny. All ages and both 
sexes partook of this feeling. They offered themselves and whatever they 
had, upon the altar of their country. The voice of New Hampshire was 
heard in almost every battle-cry, and the blood of her children stained near- 
ly every battle-field of the revolution. 

Their resources were not abundant when the war commenced, and when 
it terminated they were left in poverty. Their fields had laid uncultivated, 
their hard money had been spent, and the continental paper money had be- 
come worthless. They were in debt, and had not the means of paying 
what they owed. But their courage was not broken by adversity ; it stimu- 
lated to renewed action. The plough, the anvil, and the loom, repaired their 
broken fortunes. The busy hand of industry has fed and clothed them. 
From such men we claim our parentage, and they have raised up and sent 
forth children to all parts of the world, and to the merit and renown of some, 
your commonwealth can well bear witness. One, at least, who now 
sleeps " in the cold embraces of the tomb," has stood preeminent among 
you, and added no small share to the fame of Massachusetts. 

Long may the inhabitants of New Hampshire continue to send forth 
emigrants, who shall walk in the paths of rectitude and justice, and adorn 



]^gO NEW UAMPSniUE FESTIVAL. 

the land of their adoption. Their strength and influence must consist in 
their integrity. Without that, the untiring and fiery energy, the ceaseless 
activity, the willing industry, and even the calm and accurate judgment, 
will be of no avail. There is no enduring strength in vice ; it always did, 
and always will bring dishonor, disgrace, despair and death. So long as the 
self-denial and manly qualities of the early settlers are continued, remote 
ages will witness the prosj^erity of New Hampshire, and her offspring will 
never cease to regard her with a just pride. 

Although the land of our birth lies in the cold recrions of the north, it is 
beautiful to us. We love its mountains and its rivers, its social, intelligent 
and upright citizens. And wherever our feet may wander, or we may reside, 
in whatever region of the earth we may lay down to die, we shall never for- 
get the place of our nativity, or those who are united to us by a common 
origin. 

I am very truly and respectfully 

Your obedient servant, 

SAJIUEL WELLS. 
Messrs. Marshall P. Wilder, and others, 
of the Committee of Invitation. 



[From Hon. MosES L. ArpLETo.v.] 

Baxgor, October 29, 1853. 
Gents : 

Extremely gratified should I be, if my engagements would permit me to 
accept your kind invitation for the coming Festival of the Sons of New 
Hampshire. Though I may not claim the honor of having been born on 
the soil of your cherished State, yet I hold all that pertains to her great- 
ness and her history in deepest reverence. It was the home of my fathers, 
and with feelings of pious regard and filial love do I treasure up the virtu- 
ous recollection of those whose birth-place was amid the shades of Hills- 
borough county, and whose honored name it is my privilege to bear. 

Pleasant it is to thus keep up, by public demonstration, the hallowed 
associations connected with the olden past. You love the homes of your 
adoption, for they are svfeet and pleasant ; but, at the same time, your acts 
are testimonials in your behalf, that neither the vicissitudes of time or 
change can lessen the strong affection for the home of childhood, or 
diminish your veneration for your native State, and the patriotic achieve- 
ments which emblazon its fair escutcheon. 

Since your former Festival, the roll of the living has been again and 



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again shrouded in mourning. The mighty in intellect, the pure in motive, 
the generous in action, the noble in high example, of your common house- 
hold, have passed to another home. Their memory will be embalinod in 
your hearts, and their eloquent appeals and exalted example will be part 
of the history of both your native and adopted State. 

If I might be permitted to offer a sentiment upon the occasion, I would 
propose 

The Grandsons nf New Hampshire ! True in tlicir attacliincnt?, tliey will never forget tlie 
home of their fathers. 

With sentiments of esteem, 

I am yours, truly, 

MOSES L. APPLETOX. 
lion. M. P. Wilder, Chaules G- Greexe, and others, 

Committee iu behalf of the Sons of New Hampshire, Boston. 



[Fro?n Hon. Jonx II. White.] 

Lancaster, N. II., October 30th, 1853. 
Gentlemen : 

Owing to my absence from home, your favor giving me the honor of an 
invitation to the Festival of the " Sons of New Hampshire," on the 2d No- 
vember, was not received until yesterday, and I take the earliest moment 
of returning my acknowledgment for the same. It would afford me great 
pleasure to be present and join in the festivities of the occasion, and were 
it possible for me to do so, I should certainly avail myself of this oppor- 
tunity of meeting the Sons of New Hamp.shire in the city of their adop- 
tion. I should recognize many wise among them — many who have already 
reflected honor upon their native State, and many of whom she may well bo 
proud, and many more whose talents give promise that New Hampshire is 
not soon to be left without worthy and distinguished representatives. But 
I have to regret my inability to be with you. 

Hoping that no " son of New Hampshire " may ever have reason to be 
ashamed of his mother, or his mother of him, and wishing you all the hap- 
piness the occasion is calculated to inspire, 

I am, gentlemen, with the highest respect, 

Your obliged humble servant, 

JOIIX 11. ■\V1IITE. 
Messrs. JIarsuall P. Wildi-r, and others, 
Committee of Invitation. 



234 ^^^ HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

[From John M ' Clintock, Esq.l 

Por.TSMOUTii, N. n., October 25, 1853. 

Gentlemen : 

I deeply regret that circumstances deprive me the pleasure of accepting 
your polite and complimentary invitation to meet with you the second day 
of November, at the Festival appointed by the Sons of New Hampshire in 
Boston, to cultivate social, kind, friendly feelings — a glorious example worthy 
of our sons in Boston, and endorsed by all the sons of New Hampshire. 

May we all meet in another, higher and happier state, where we shall 
be progressing in wisdom, in knowledge, in love of the divine perfections of 
our Heavenly Father with joys unspeakable and without e?id, is the prayer of 
Your most aifectionate friend. 

With respect, 

JOHN M'CLINTOCK. 
Mausuall p. Wilder, Chas. G. Greene, and others, 
Committee of Invitation to celebrate tho Festival of the 
Sons of New Hampshire in Boston. 



N A ]M E S 



OF THE 



^aiis of Bell) |j;iiu|)5l]irr 



REGISTEUED FOR THE 



FESTIVAL. 



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The first column desijrnatos the names of the Sons of New Hampshire ; the second, their birth-place , 
the third, the date of their removal to Massachusetts ; the fourth, their business ; and the last one 
shows their residence. 



ROCKINGHAM COUNTY. 



Names. Where from. Date. 

Abbott, John E Portsmouth, 1840 

Adams, John G Portsmouth, 1838 

Adams, Benjamin E.i:eter, 

Allen,* Samuel R Salem, 1831 

Anderson, John Londonderry, . . . 1846 

Aycrs, Ira Portsmouth, 1827 

Allen, Hiram Salem, 1827 

Allen, .John Salem, 1834 

Allen,* Amos T Salem, 1842 

Allen, Benjamin F Salem, 1840 

Allen, David Salem, 1827 

Butler, Josiah W Deerfield, 1842 

Boles, John Salem, 180C 

Eennct, Cotton Newmarket, 

Burpee, Nathaniel Dcerfield, 1825 

Briard, Oliver Portsmouth,. . . . 1825 

Bigelow, 1). Jackson Portsmouth, 1844 

Blunt, Charles E Portsmouth, 1846 

Brodhead, Josiah A Newmarket, 1842 

Brown,* Josiah Stratham, 1821 

Butler, Do Witt C Dcerfield, 1842, 

Brown, Ira P North Hampton, 

Elasdel, .Tohn C Portsmouth, 1845 

Brown, Isaac E Windham, 1832 

Brodhead, J. C Newmarket, .... 182 



Business. Present Besidence. 

. . Merchant, Boston. 

. Minister, Maiden. 

. . Merchant, Boston. 

. Clothing Dealer, Somerville. 

, . Dry Goods, Roxbury. 

. Barber, Boston. 

. Cordage Manufacturer, . . Somerville. 

. Dry Goods, Lynn. 

. Clothing, Boston. 

.Clothing, " 

. Provisions, Charlcstown. 

, . Merchant, Boston. 

. . House Wright, " 

Beverly. 

, . Brickmaker, Cambridge. 

. Merchant, Boston. 

. . Bookseller, *' 

..U.S. Army, " 

. Bookseller, " 

. Carpenter, " 

.Grocer, " 

. Carpenter, Lynn. 

Boston. 

.i\Ierchant, " 

. Clerk, Portsmouth. 



]^§g NEW nA MPS II IRE FESTIVAL 

Names. TVlicre from. Date. Business. Present Uasidecce. 

Beck, Gidouii Portsmouth, 183G, . . Auctioneer, Boston, 

Bachelder, Albert J Xorthwood, 1841, . .Carpenter, " 

Badger, J. L Portsmouth, 1842, . . Shipwright and Caulker, " 

Bell, A. W Portsmouth, 1843, Dorchester. 

Ball, Charles W Portsmouth, 1842, .. Suffolk Bank, Salem. 

Ball, E. W Portsmouth, 1843, . . Dry Goods, Somerville. 

Ball, T. M Portsmouth, 1829, . . Merchant, Boston. 

Bartlett, B. C Nottingham, 1845, . .Attorney at Law, Chelsea. 

Barker, Charles A Xewington, Trader, Charlestown. 

Barnes, Benjamin II Portsmouth, 1817, . . Teller in Bank, Chelsea. 

Batchelder, M. V. B Deerfield, 1849, . .Furniture, Boston. 

Badger, William Portsmouth, 1833, . .Cabinet Manufacturer, . .Bedding. 

Bartlett, John F Nottingham, .... 1837, . .Coach Proprietor, Boston. 

Bazin, George H' Portsmouth, 1817, . .Printer, " 

Basford, Henry Chester, 1834,. .W. I. Goods, Roxbury. 

Bazin,* William C Portsmouth, 1818, . .Clerk, P. Boston. 

Bean, James A Rye, 1839,. .Furniture Dealer, " 

Bartlett, James Northwood, Farmer, Brookline. 

Brown, Charles M Exeter, Clerk Bo.ston. 

Beckett, J. L Exeter, 1849, . .Printer, " 

Brown, Horatio G. Jr. . . Portsmoutli, 1S4G, . .Lard Oil and Candles, ... " 

Batchelder, B. F Xorthwood, 1849,.. " 

Batchelder, II. L Portsmouth, .Jeweller, " 

Ball, John, Portsmouth, 1834, . . City Missionary, Salem. 

Batchelder, JI. G Xorthwood, 1833, . . Manufacturer, Boston. 

Butler, Frank J Deerfield, Attorney and Counsellor, " 

Beck, A. JI Portsmouth, 1847, . . Manufacturer, " 

Chase, Theodore Portsmouth, 1835, . . ^Merchant, Boston. 

Chase, Charles Deerfield, 1836, . .Physician, Chelsea. 

Chapman, Francis L. . . .Newmarket, 1831, . .Carriage Builder, Cambridge. 

Cotton, Nathaniel Portsmouth, 1817, . .Lumber Surveyor, " 

Crockett, George W Northwood, 1819, . . President B'kN.America,Boston. 

Clement, Jeremiah Chester, 1841, . .Grocer, " 

Chapman,* E. A Newmarket, 1826,. .Carriage Builder, Cambridge. 

Crane, T. Farrar Exeter, 1844, . .At School, Boston. 

Claggett, J. Bart Portsmouth, 1846, . . Attorney at Law, " 

Chadwick, Ebenezor .... Exeter, 1810, . . Merchant, " 

Cogswell, George Atkinson, 1830, . .Physician, Bradford. 

Crooker, H. B Derry, 1833, . .Housewright, Boston. 

Cogswell, Francis Atkinson, 1842,. .Cashier Andover Bank, . .Andover. 

Carswell, Charles W Northwood, 1844, . . Merchant, Boston. 

Checver, .John Portsmouth, 1824, . .Physician, Charlestown. 

Chapman, Faulkner Newmarket, 1835, . . Carriage Painter, " 

Cheever, Joseph Portsmouth, 1847,. .Physician, Boston. 

Cochran, Nelson Windham, 1842,. .Shoe Manufacturer, Melrose. 

Clintock, Wm. F. M. .. .Portsmouth, 1837, . .Dealer in Vegetables Boston. 

Clark, William Portsmouth, 1819, . .Physician, " 

Crockett, Ephraim Stratham, 1823,. .Furniture Carver, " 

Cheney, John E Londonderry, . . . .1832, . . Stable Keeper, " 

Cheever, John Haven. . .Portsmouth, 1840,. .Merchant, " 

Clarke, Moses Atkinson, Phj-sician, Cambridge. 



ROCKINGHAM COUNTY. -lOq 

Names. "UTicro fro.n. D.ito. n.Kiness. Present Uosidonce 

Cochran, Jonathan AViu.lhain Land Surveyor, Maiden. 

Caverly, Charles Portsmouth, is 15, . . Collector, I3o.ston. 

Clark, Josepli Windham, 1815, . . Brick Maker, Somcrvillc. 

Carr, Daniel. Jr Derry, 1844, . .Clerk, ]]oston. 

Cogswell, William Atkinson, Physician, " 

Crane, T. Farrar Exctor, 1844, . .Student, " 

Capen, Samuel M Londonderry,. ... 1837, . . Brick Maker, Cambridge. 

Conner, Charles (J Exeter, 1851, . .Student, " 

Coleman, John E. W . . . . Portsmouth, 1839, . . Artist, East Stoughton. 

Cheever, Charles V,' Portsmouth, 1852, . .Tailor, Boston. 

Cram, S. B Raymond, Machinist, Charlestown. 

-Currier, Gideon Chester, 1835, . . Master Builder, Boston. 

Chase, R. Jr , ..Derry, 1853, . .Clerk, " 

Curtis, William Dover, 1833, . . Carpenter, Roxbury. 

Gate, Samuel Portsmouth, 1820, . . Cooper, Boston. 

Cook, McLawrin F Newington, 1850, . .Teacher, Bcston. 

Cutter, R. C Portsmouth, Merchant, " 

Dudley, E. 6 Raymond, 1841, . . Attorney at Law, Boston. 

Dudley, Benjamin F Raymond, 1843, . .Coppersmith, " 

Drake, Francis S Northwood, 1829, . . Book Keeper, " 

'Dearborn, Jeremiah Portsmouth, 1824, . .Merchant, Lynn. 

Dow, George Salem, 1841,. .Dry Goods, Boston. 

Dennett, Jeremiah A Portsmouth, 183G, . .Paper Hangings, . . " 

Dearborn,* NathanieL. .Portsmouth, 1790,. .Engraver, " 

Dearborn,* II. A. S Exeter, Mayor, Roxbury. 

Dearborn, John M Portsmouth, Range and Furnace, .... Boston. 

Dearborn, S. Candia, 1840, . . Merchant, Melrose. 

Dearborn, E. B North Hampton, .1839, . .Teacher, Boston. 

Ditson, Thomas Portsmouth, 1813,. .Engineer, " 

Dudley, Moses G Raymond, 1845,. .U. S. Coast Survey, Salem. 

Dinsmore, Robert Chester, 1847,. .Hotel Keeper, Boston. 

Dearborn,* Nathaniel. . .Kensington, Farmer, Lynn. 

Dennett, George Portsmouth, 1852,. .Measurer custom house,.. Boston. 

Dennett, George W Portsmouth, 1850,. .Student of Medicine,.. . . " 

Damrell, Charles L Portsmouth 1849, . .Bookseller, " 

Dow, Rufus South Hampton,. 1849,. .Merchant, " 

Dinsmore, James Windham, 1846, . .Furniture Dealer, " 

Dunnells, S Portsmouth, 1829,. .Laborer, Cambridge. 

Ewins, Alexander Salem, 1843,. .Trader, Boston. 

Eastham, William W. . . . Exeter, ...... .1835, . . Brush Dealer, " 

Emery, George Francis . . Portsmouth, 1828, . . U. S. General Appraiser,. " 

Eustis, W. T 1809, . . Merchant, " 

Eastham, Charles Exeter, 1832,. .Dentist, " 

Emerson, Frederick Hampstead, 1823,. .Instructor, " 

Eastman, E. T Hampstead, 1847, . . Physician, " 

Eaton, Moses, Jr Candia, 184G,. .Trader, " 

Eastman, J. T Hampstead, 1845,. .Dry Goods, " 

Emerson, Elijah C Chester, 1834. . . Merchant, Brookline. 

Emerson, N. F Chester, 1847,. .Produce, Boston. 

Eaton, Osgood, Plaistow, 1825, . .Surveying Lumber, " 

Eastman, A. F Chester, 1840,. .Clerk, " 



190 



NEW HAMPSUIRE FESTIVAL. 



Names. "Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Eastman, Josepbvis Deerfield, 1850,. .Counsellor at Law, Boston. 

Emerson, Benjamin D. . . Hampstead, 1819, . . Gentleman, West Roxbury. 

^J'rench, James South Hampton, .1840, . . Pub. and Stationer, Boston. 

Fitz, Daniel Sandown, 1826,. .Preacher of Gospel, Ipswich. 

French, Abner Sandown, 1837,. .Dry Goods, Boston. 

Ford, Ebeuozer Nottingham, 1819, . .Blacksmith, Charlestown. 

Frye, Isaac W Portsmouth, 1829, . .Printer, Boston. 

Frost, James M N'ewcastle, ISll, .Carpenter, Charlestown. 

Folsom, Charles Exeter, 1810,. .Lib. Boston Athenceum... Cambridge. 

Fields, George A Portsmouth, 1833, . . Bookbinder, Boston. 

Fields, James T Portsmouth, Pub. and Bookseller, " 

Fcrnald, N. Mar.-^hall. . .Portsmouth, 1847, . .Thread & Needle Store,.. " 

Furber, Page Northwood, Provision Dealer, " 

Furber, William II. II... Northwood, Fruit Deal. F. II. Mk"t. . " 

French, Moses S Epping, 1833, . . Conductor R. R Watertown. 

Fitz, Luther Chester, 1847,. .Produce, Charlestown. 

Fitts, Levi B Chester, 1841, . .Hackman, Boston. 

French, George P Sandown, 1845,. .Merchant, " 

Frost, Horatio Newcastle, 1843, . . Painter, " 

Frye, A. J Portsmouth, 1852,. .Fancy Goods, " 

French, Ebcnezer Kensington, 1850,. .Custom House, " 

Folsom, John F Exeter, 1840, . . Bookbinder, " 

Folsom, Albert A Exeter, 1842,. .Clerk, " 

Farrar, AVilliam H Derry, 1845.. .Attorney & Counsellor,.. " 

Fitz, Asa Candia, 1838, . . Publisher, West Newton. 

Fitz, George Vf Sandown, 1823, . . Miller, Cambridgeport. 

Gage, Tenney K Londonderry, 1843, . .Dry Goods, Boston. 

Gordon, George AVm Exeter, " 

Gookin, Samuel H Portsmouth, 1836, . .Merchant, " 

Gordon, John Salem, 1822,. .Farmer, Brighton. 

George, Lcander Londonderry, . . ..1842,. .Bootmaker, Braintree. 

Gilman, Charles J Exeter, Attorney, 

Gilman, Charles J. G Exeter, Attorney, 

Grant,* George Portsmouth, 1823, . .Provision Dealer, Boston. 

Greene, JtL C Deerfield, 1842, . .Physician and Surgeon,.. " 

^Gove, Jeremiah D Kensington, 1821, . .Merchant, " 

Griffin, J. Q. A Londonderry, 1850, . . Attorney & Counsellor, . . Charlestown. 

Goss, Daniel J Portsmouth, 1845,. .Merchant, i Boston. 

Gookin, J. M Portsmouth, 1842, . . Dry Goods, " 

Grant, C. W. C Portsmouth, Tailor, " 

Gale, Ezra W South Hampton, .1839, . .Teacher, Maiden. 

Gerrish, S. H Portsmouth, 1850, . . Machinist, Boston. 

Gage, Addison Pelham, 1829,. .Ice Merchant, West Cambridge. 

Gordon, Benjamin F Exeter, 1852, . .Carriage-Smith, Boston. 

Gilman, Nicholas Exeter, 1851,. .Student, Cambridge. 

Gilman, Alfred, Portsmouth, 1853, . .Merchant Tailor, Lowell. 

Gordon, J. M Portsmouth, 1842,. .Columbian Bank, Boston. 

Griffith, Edmund R Portsmouth, 1818, . .Printer, " 

Goodrich, C. B. Jr. . Portsmouth, 

Hobbs, William J. C. . . .North Hampton, .1837, . .Produce, Boston. 

Ilcaley, I^Iark Kensington, 1811, . .Merchant, Lynn. 



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191 



Names. Where from. Date. Business. Present rwesiaencc. 

Ilazclton, Isaac 11 Chester, 182G, . .Mason, Boston. 

Hill, Oliver B Northwood, 1835, . .Clerk, « 

Ilayford, Riley Salem, 1805, . .Grocer, " 

Hill, ■\VilIiam II Portsmouth, 1832,. .Stationer, " 

Ilayford, * William Derry, 1816,. .Brick Layer, « 

Hall, Timothy Portsmouth, 1S44, . . Commission Merchant, . . " 

Haven, George "W Portsmouth, 1840, . . Author, « 

Hill, J. Haven Nortlnvood, 1 830, . . Jlerchant Tailor, " 

Hall, Hiram Chester, 1833,. .Ilousc^vright, Roxbury. 

Hill, Joseph U Northwood, 1812,. .Tailor, Boston. 

Hinds, A. M Greenland, 1829,. .Provision Dealer, " 

Hill,* George Portsmouth, ISIG, . .Merchant, Rosbury. 

Hickcy, T. Heudec Portsmouth, 1845,. .Dry Goods, Boston. 

Hills, John R Chester, 1842, . .Clerk, " 

Hayes, James A Newcastle, 1837, . .Merchant, " 

Hylan, Sumner Londonderry, Machinist, Lowell. 

Hobbs, M. H Londonderry, 

IIobb.<, Simon L Xorth Hampton, . 184S, . . Publisher, Boston. 

Hobbs, J. W. F North Hampton,. 1837,.. Staging, « 

Haley, J. J Epping, 1839,. .Merchant, " 

Holman, Joseph F Portsmouth, 1840, . . Apothecary, " • 

Hill, AYalter E Portsmouth, 1828, . .Dry Go6ds, " 

Hilton, John Newmarket, 1819,. .Trader, Lynn. 

Hilton, John F Newmarket, 1821,. .Lynn and Boston Ex " 

Harris, Charles C Portsmouth, 1847,. .Teacher, Boston. 

Hall, Orrin Candia, Grocer, Cambridge.. 

Hill, Edwin A Northwood, 1S45, . .Stair Builder, Boston. 

Hill, S.^V Northwood, 184G, . .Machinist, " 

Harrold, Joseph Portsmouth, 1825,. .Cooper, Charlestown. 

Hill, Charles Henry Northwood, 1851, . .Clerk, Boston. 

Hill, George AVilliam. . .Northwood, 1851,. .Clerk, " 

Harris, Theodore S Portsmouth, 1849, . . Apothecary, " 

Hill, Charles A ..Northwood, 1848,. .Cutter, " 

Hall, David Chester, 182(;, . .Builder, Roxbury. 

Hoyt, James W Newington, 1845,. .Printer, Boston. 

Hall, A. T Portsmouth, 1834, . . Boot Counter ?ilanufac'r.. Charlestown. 

Hill, William Portsmouth, 1800, . .Gentleman, Cambridge. 

Haven, Washington Portsmouth, 1851,. .Dry Goods, Lynn. 

Ham, 0. A Portsmouth, 1848,. .Printer, Boston. 

Hanscom, 0. A Portsmouth, 1851, . .Clerk, " 

Hoyt, JohnE Newington, 184G, . .Printer, " 

Holmes, F. M Greenland, 1840,. .Sofa Manufacturer, Charlestown. 

Holmes, P. B Greenland, 1833,.. Sofa Manufacturer, '• 

Jenness, J. S Deerficld, 1835, . .Importer Dry Goods, Boston. 

Jackson, JohnH Portsmouth, 1853, ..Aid to the Revenue, " 

Jenness, H. P Pembroke, 1853, . .Refreshments, Chariest jwn. 

Jones, Nathaniel Portsmouth, 

-'-li:ennard, M. P Portsmouth, 1836, . .Merchant, Boston. 

Kennard,* Oliver P., Jr.Portsmouth, 1840,.. Ship Chandler, " 

—Kenuard, William II.... Portsmouth, 1840,. .Clerk, " 

Kennard, John S Portsmouth, 1844, . .Dry Goods, " 



192 



NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 



Names. ■Where from. Date. Business. Present KesiJence. 

Kennard,* George ^Y . . .Portsmouth, 1846, . .Clerk, Boston. 

Knowles, 'William J . . . Chester, Carpenter, " 

Knowlton, JohnB Portsmouth, 1836, . .Merchant, " 

Kelley, AY. R Exeter, 1805, . .Merchant Tailor, " 

Kimball, Isaiah W Salem, 1828, .. Provisions, Charlestoirn. 

Koitt, Gardner J Northwood, 1840, . . Book Keeper, Boston. 

Kent, AbnerR .Hampstead, 

Kcnnasen, Albert Epson, 1839, . . Brick Maker, Somcrvillc. 

Kimball, Salem,. 1819, . .Tailor, Cbarlcstown. 

Kimball, David Salem, 1832, . . Druggist, Boston. 

Kennard, Charles W Portsmouth, 1851,. .Clerk, " 

Locke, Samuel B Newmarket, 1845, . .Junk Dealer, Melrose. 

Leavitt, Benson Hampton Falls,.. 1826, . .Merchant, Boston. 

Little, Nicholas Salem, 1813, . . Blacksmith, " 

Little, E. H Hampstaad, 1820,. .Cooper, " 

Locke, Oliver Kingston, 1836, . .Merchant, " 

Leavitt, John L Exeter, 1829, . .Manufacturer, " 

Locke, Cornelius E Portsmouth, 1848,. .Clerk, " 

Little,* Walter Hampstead, 1825, " 

Ladd, William U Portsmouth, 1837, . .Publisher of Daily Bee,. " 

Laighton, J. Alexander . Portsmouth, 1853, . . Books and Stationery, . . " 

Langley, H, P Nottingham, 1838, . .Machinist, " 

Libbey, William L Portsmouth, 1846,. .Book Keeper, Chelsea. 

Long, John Rye, Farmer, Boston. 

Leighton, J. A Exeter 1830, . .Officer at Jail, " 

Lang, John Portsmouth, 

Lyford, E. W Epping, 1823,. .Carpenter, " 

,— McGregor, James Londonderry,.. . .1815, . .Merchandise, Boston. 

Mason, Robert M Portsmouth, 1840, . .Merchant, " 

Marsh, Thomas J Exeter, 183 2, . . Public Store Keeper, Lynn. 

Jloulton, C. H Portsmouth, 1844, . . Printer, Boston. 

Morrison, Alva Windham, 1826, . .Woolen Manufacturer, . .Braintrec. 

Miller, Moses Portsmouth, 1810,. .Inspector of Fish, Boston. 

Mann, N. P Portsmouth, 1819,. .Fish Dealer, " 

McGregor, Alexander.. .Dcrry, 1826, ..Hotel Keeper, " 

Merrill, Parker South Hampton, . 1848, . . Clerk, " 

Merrill, George S South Hampton, . 1849, . . Clerk, ' " 

Merrill, Nathan South Hampton, . 1833, . . Bookseller, Charlestown. 

Melcher, Sj'lvcster Portsmouth, 1851, . .Custom House, Boston. 

Mudge, A. C Portsmouth, 1839, . .Dry Goods, " 

Marden, William Portsmouth, 1819, . .Printer, " 

Melcher, William N Portsmouth, 1830, . . Express, Lynn. 

Merrill, Benjamin L Portsmouth, 1841, . .Trader, Boston. 

]\Iarden, Jeflferson C Portsmouth, 1831, . .Carpenter, " 

McClure* David Raymond, 1829, . .Trader, Cambridge. 

McAlvin, John B Windham, 1819, . .Paymaster Suffolk Co — Lowell. 

Mudge, Edwin A Portsmouth, 1851, . .Jeweller Boston. 

Melcher, John L Portsmouth, 1838, . . Book Keeper, " 

Mason, George A Portsmouth, 1833, . .Couii.-cllor, " 

Morrison, Robert North wood, 1841, . .Si-.j^'t of Farm School,.. . " 

March, Oliver Portsmouth, 1837,. .Bookseller, Lowell. 



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193 



Names. Wlu-rc from. Date. Rufincss. Present RcsiUenco 

J.Iarsh, T. J. Jr Exeter, 1850, . . Clerk in Custom House, . Boston. 

Merrill, Henry R Exeter, ^lerchant, " 

Moore, Page Chester, 1832, . .Leather Dealer, Roxburv. 

Mathews, J. M Northficld, Boston. 

"kludge, Alfred Portsmouth, 1825, . . Printer " 

Marshall, Simon F Hampton, 1822, . .Carpenter, " 

Moulton, William U Portsmouth, 1842,. .Printer, « 

Moulton, Daniel Portsmouth, 1827,. .Clothing Store, Lynn. 

Marston, John P Greenland, ISIJC, . .Machinist, Chnrleh^town. 

Merrill, T. T South Hampton, . 1837, . . Agt. Amesbury Man. Co. Amesbury 

Nutting, Benjamin F. . .Portsmouth, Artist, Boston. 

Norris, Joseph B Deerfield, 1835,. .AVcst India Goods, " 

Norris, Samuel M Xewmarket, 1 8-15, . . Clerk, " 

Noyes, Francis Atkinson, 1837,. .Manufacturer, North Danveii 

Nelson, Horatio, G Exeter 1830,. .Grocer, Boston. 

Norris, AVilliam H Portsmouth, 1852,. .Carpenter Cambridge. 

Noble, John H Portsmouth, 1828,. .Merchant, Smerville. 

Odell, J. "\V North Hampton,. 1853,. .Student, Boston. 

Packer, George, Nottingham, 1817,. .Morocco 3Ianufacturer,.. Boston. 

Parrott, William W Portsmouth, 183G, . .Merchant, .' Gloucester. 

Patten, C. B Kingston, Clerk, Boston. 

Plumer, AVilliam Epping, 1847, . .Attorney at Law, Cambridge. 

Parker, William Windham, 1827,. .Mason, Boston. 

Plummer, Enoch Londonderry, . . . 1821, . . Bridge Builder, " 

Pierce, Joshua E, Greenland, Student, Harvard College 

Prescott, B. T Brentwood, 1827, . .Dentist, Boston. 

Pike, A. R. C Portsmouth, 1835, . .Salesman, " 

Philbrick, John D Deerfield, 1842, . . Teacher Quincy School, . " 

Plumcr, Avery, Jr Portsmouth, 1832,. .Merchant, " 

Parker, Francis E Portsmouth, 1846,. .Lawyer, " 

Parrott, William F Portsmouth, 1844, . .Merchant, " 

Pike, E. W Hampton Falls,.. 1830,. .Carpenter, " 

Paige, CharlesE New Hampton,. .1829, . .Wood and Coal Dealer,.. " 

Prince, J. M Candia, 1846,. .Insurance Broker, Chelsea. 

—-Pickering, Washington,. Portsmouth, 1835,.. Car Builder, Boston. 

Pickering, D. N Newiugton, 1831,.. Car Builder, " 

Patten, IchabodB Kingston, 1843, . .Pharmaceutist, " 

Parrott, E. G Portsmouth, 1849, . .United States Navy Boston Statior 

Page, Horatio Portsmouth, Cincinnati. 

Pickering, AVinthrop Newington 

Pinkerton, J. M Dcrry, Attorney at Law, Boston. 

Perkins, John M Exeter, 1845, ..Dry Goods, " 

Pierce, W. A Portsmouth, 1851,. .Auctioneer, " 

Patten, Ora P Kingston, 1853,. .Truckman, " 

Paul, Daniel B Portsmouth, 1851,.. Fancy Goods, " 

Parker J. D Exeter, 1851, . .Collecting Clerk, Winchester 

Palmer, Thomas Dcrry, 

Pillsbury, Joseph Candia, 1822,. .Teamster, Boston. 

Palmer, J. R Exeter, 1845, . .Teacher, " 

Park,AVilliam Windham, 1827,. Mason, " 

Pitman, E Portsmouth, 182G, . .Tailor, " 

17 



194 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTITAL. 

Names. "Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Prescott, George B Kingston, 1830,. .Telegrapher, . .Boston. 

Parker, F. Edward Portsmouth, 1846, . .Lawyer, " 

Pike, George S Exeter, 1837, . . Builder, " 

Philbrick, C. P Rye 1818, . .Police Officer, " 

Pevear, Bradbury Hampton Falls, . . 1819, . .Shoe Dealer, Roxbury. 

Pitman, George U Portsmouth, 1825,. .Trader, Dorchester. 

Pierce, Joseph P Portsmouth,. ... 184G, . .Shipwright, Boston. 

Prince, J. B Candia, 1831, . .Insurance Agent, Chelsea. 

Philbrick, J. C Rye, Hotel Keeper, 

Palmer, A. C Candia, Shoe Store, CharlcstowB. 

Place, G.W Portsmouth, 1846, . .Clerk, Walpole. 

Rowe, Sherburn, Candia, 1827, . .Broker, Boston. 

Robinson, Shadrack, Greenland, 1832,. .Flour Dealer, " 

Rust, Samuel Exeter, Tin Plate Worker, Lynn. 

Robinson, Frederick Exeter, Warden State Prison,. . .Charlestown. 

Rollins, X. F Stratham, 1831, . . Carpenter, Cambridge. 

Randall, Benjamin Portsmouth, 1835,. .Carpenter, Somerville. 

Robie, John A , . . . Exeter, 1841, . . Merchant Tailor, Maiden. 

Rand, Eldred Rye, 1832,. .Trader, Boston. 

---^Rand, William J Dccrfield, 1847, . .Merchant, " 

Randall, Benjamin Portsmouth, Carpenter, Somerville. 

Rice, William D Portsmouth,. ... 1831,. .Coppersmith, Roxbury. 

Siso, Albert F, .Portsmouth, 1848,. .Clerk, Boston. 

Smith, Hiram D Candia, 1847, . .Clerk, " 

Stevens, Ebenezer, Plaistow, 1821,. .Physician, " 

Sweetser, Isaac, Chester, 1837, . .Paints and Drugs, " 

-"Sheafe, Daniel R Portsmouth, 1830,. .Merchant, " 

Shaw, Edward Hampton, 1822, . .Architect, " 

Swascy, Charles E Exeter, Clerk, Danrers. 

Stevens, James Newcastle, 1816,. .Plane Maker, Boston. 

Shackford, John E Portsmouth, 1846,. .Merchant, Roxbury. 

Stacy, M. P Portsmouth, 1845, . . Merchant, Cambridge. 

Smith, D. D Portsmouth, Physician, Boston. 

Sise, John Portsmouth, 1849,. .Clerk, " 

Shirley, William W Chester, Lamp Lighter, ... " 

Swasey, Joseph L Exeter, 1829,. .Clerk B. <fe P. R. R.,. . . . " 

Simes, Joseph Portsmouth, 1827, . .Merchant, " 

Shapley, F. A Portsmouth, Clerk, " 

Stevens, Edward C Brcntwftod, 1849, . .Carpet Dealer, " 

SafFord, George W Exeter, 1840, . . Book Keeper, <' 

Sanborn,* Alfred S Exeter, Carpenter, " 

Sanborn, Greenleaf C. . .Exeter, 1824, . .Carpenter, " 

Sheafe, Mark W Portsmouth, 1840, . . Farmer, Dorchester. 

Seaward, John M Portsmouth 1818, . . IMercbant, Natick. 

Shaw, E. D Hampton, 1814,. .Blacksmith, Boston. 

Sargent, Charles Windham, 1830,. .Teamster, " 

Sargent, James Windham, 1838, . .Teamster, " 

_^hillaber, Benjamin P. .Portsmouth, 1832, . .Printer, " 

Sleeper, Daniel C Sandown, 1848,. .Provision Dealer, " 

Senter, William H Portsmouth, 1847, . .Dry Goods, " 

Stevens, John Plaistow, 1820,. . Physician, " 



ROCKIXGIIAM COUNTY 



195 



Names. WTicrc from. Pate. Business. Present Residence. 

Stockman, Charles W. . .Hampton, 1829, . .Printer, Charlestown. 

Stockman, J. M Hampton, 1829, . .Wood Turner, " 

Stavers, John W Portsmouth, 18.50, . . Boots and Shoes, Boston. 

Simcs, Joseph S Portsmouth, 1852,.. Teas, « 

Shepherd, J. M Portsmouth, 1849, . . Hack Driver, " 

Starbird, X. AV Northwood, 1825, . .Tailor, " 

>>^tevenson, John L Poplin, 1853, . . Book Keeper, " 

Sise, Francis P Portsmouth, 1852, . . Clerk, " 

Sanborn, Charles East Kingston,. . .1853,. .Custom House, " 

Seaward, George W Portsmouth, 181G, . .Clerk, " 

Sargent, Cyrus Candia, 1841, . . Broker, " 

Stevens, Jacob Epping, 1834, ..W. I. Goods, Xewburyport. 

Stocker, Alfred A Portsmouth, 1840, . . Physician, Cambridge. 

Seavey, Stephen S New Hampton, . .1849, . .Merchant, Boston. 

Sleeper, Charles F Portsmouth, 1834, . . Architect, Roxbury. 

Stevens, N. F Exeter, 1838, . .Truckman, Boston. 

Tucker, Boswell D Plaistow, 1840, . . Mason, Boston. 

Tucker, Stephen Plaistow, 1840, . .Sup't Public Lands " 

Todd, Isaac F Atkinson, 1847, . . Accountant, " 

Turcll, Garland Portsmouth, 1843,. .Broker, AV. Cambridge. 

Towle, J. AVarren Epping, Student, Harvard College. 

Thurston, Caleb Exeter, AVharfinger 

Thurston, James Newmarket, 1829,. .Clergyman, Billcrica. 

Taylor, David Epping, 1818, . . Manufacturer, Lynn. 

Todd, P. P Atkinson, Counsellor, Blackstone. 

Tuttle, Hugh H Portsmouth, 1829, . . Printer, Charlestown. 

Tucker, James I Kingston, 1833,. .Gents. Furnishing Store,. Boston. 

Towle, J. D North Hampton, . 1823, . . Architect, Newton. 

Taylor, Samuel H Derry, Prin. Phillips Academy, . Andover. 

Treadwell, AVilliam P. . .Portsmouth, 1836,. .Salesman, Somerville. 

Fredrick, Titus S Portsmouth, 1851,. .Student, Cambridge. 

Titcomb, AVilliam H Raymond, 1844, . . Artist, " 

Underbill, 0. H Chester, 1838, . .Leather Dealer, Boston. 

Underhill, S. G Chester, 1833,.. Edge Tool Maker, Charlcsto^vn. 

Vennard, Marcellus A.. . .Portsmouth, 1848, . .Clerk, Boston. 

AATebster, David L Portsmouth, 1832, . .Leather Dealer, Bo.ston. 

AVebster, Charles E Portsmouth, 1838, . . Merchant, " 

AA^eeks, AA" illiara A Portsmouth, 1833, . .U. S. Despatch Agent, . . " 

AA'aldron, Samuel AA' Portsmouth, 1834, . .Merchant, " 

AVebster, Fletcher Portsmouth, 1816,. .Lawyer, " 

AYalker, George S Portsmouth, 184C,..Book Keeper, " 

AValker, Seth AA' Portsmouth, 1836, . .Clerk, " 

AVoodbury, Charles L Portsmouth, 1845, . .Counsellor at Law, " 

AVendell, Jacob, Jr Portsmouth, . . Clerk, " 

AValdron, A. A Portsmouth, Merchant, " 

AValker, AA'. Augustus.. . .Portsmouth, 1843,.. Fancy Goods, " 

AA'alkcr, .James P Portsmouth, 1845, . .Bookseller, " 

AVeeks, James H Portsmouth, 1831, . ..Alcrchant, " 

AVeeks, Stephen Greenland, 1834, . .Trader, " 

AVise, AVilliam G Portsmouth, 1838, . .Cashier Manuf'g Co Lowell. 

AViggin, Charles E Newmarket, 1828, . . Crock'y and Pap. Hang . . Boston. 



196 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Names. Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Webster, John G Portsmouth, 1840, . .Leather Dealer, Maiden. 

Wiggin, Joshua D Northwood, 1844, . . Black and Whitesmith, . . Boston. 

Wright, Edmund, Jr Hampstead, Wharfinger, Cambridge. 

Worthen,* T. F Candia, Cooper, Charlestown. 

Waldron, S. W., Jr Portsmouth, Merchant, Boston. 

Wiggin, Ira W Stratham, 1841,. .Trader, Cambridge. 

Wells, George W. HamptonFalls,. .1827, ..Provision Dealer, Chelsea. 

Wentworth, Jacob S Exeter, 1836,. .Morocco Manufacturer,. Lynn. 

Walker, W. S Portsmouth, 1816,. .Capt. U. S. Navy, Boston. 

"Wiggin, Robert P S. Newmarket,. .1842,. .Importer Leaf Tobacco, 1, " 

Waldron, N. Sheafc Portsmouth, 1840, . .Major Marines, U. S. N. " 

Worthen, L. G Candia, 1848,. .Clerk, " 

Weeks, C. P Portsmouth, 1850, . . Bookseller, <' 

Walker, William S Portsmouth, 1851, . .Clerk, " 

Wright, Edmund, Jr Hampstead, 1820, . . Clerk, Cambridge. 

Wise, George D Portsmouth, ,Shoo ^Manufacturer, Natick. 

Weeks, N. G Greenland, Ship Master, Greenland, N.H. 

Woodbury, William II. .Portsmouth, 1853, . .Student, Boston. 

. — Woodbury, Charles Salem, 1835, . .Mason, " 

Williams, John Exeter, 1847, . .Clerk, " 

Weeks, William P Greenland, Lawyer, 

Wilson, Charles AVindham, 1836,. .Stone Cutter, " 

Wilson, David V Windham, 1843,.. Stone Cutter, " 

Wilson, C. C Windham, 1842,.. Stone Cutter, " 

White, John T Portsmouth, 1818, . . Deputy Sheriff, Medfi)rd. 

Wiggin, James S Newmarket, 1824, . .Merchant, Boston. 



HILLSBORO' COUNTY. 

Aikin, John Bedford, Manufacturer, Lowell. 

Averill, .J. P Mount Vernon, . . 1848, . . Teacher, Boston. 

Ames, Samuel T Brookline, 1837, . . Merchant, Medford. 

Abbott, J. II Wilton, 1833, . .Teacher, Boston. 

Andrews, Abraham Ilillsboro', 1822,.. Instructor, Charlestown. 

Appleton,* Samuel New Ipswich,. ■. .1794,. .Merchant, Boston. 

Aikin, Calvin Deering, 1833,. .Wood and Coal, " 

Andrews, Charles Hillsboro', 1830, . .Grocer, " 

Abbott,* Timothy B Wilton, 1831, . .Mason, " 

Appleton, Nathan New Ipswich,. . .1794,. .Merchant, " 

...--Andrews, C. C Hillsboro', 1843, . .Counsellor, " 

Averill, D. W Lyndeboro', 1836, ..Stage Proprietoi-, Billerica. 

Allison, John P Peterborough,.. .1851,. .Student, Cambridge. 

Averill, Hiram Mount Vernon,. .1825,. .Trader, Charlestown. 

Adams, Charles, .Jr Antrim, 1850,. .Boot and Shoe Dealer, . .N. Brookfield. 

Batchelder, William New Ipswich, Farmer, Andovcr. 



KILLSBOUO' COUNTY. 



197 



Names. AVhcro from. Date. Husiuess. Present Residence. 

Burnap, S. G Temple, 1820,. .riiysician, lloUiston. 

Barnard, II. M Amherst, 1805,. .Grocer, Boston. 

Butler, B Pelham, 1813, . . Attorney at Law, " 

Bowers, Levi Peterboro', 1843,. .Clerk, " 

Blair, L New Boston, 1845, . .Merchant, " 

Barnes, Isaac Bedford, 1835, . . Pension Agent, " 

Batchclder, Horace H. . . Francestown, . . . 1835, . . AV. I. Goods, " 

Butler, Caleb Pelham, Lawyer, Groton. 

Boynton, James Milford, 1824,. .Jewelry it Fancy Goods,. Boston. 

Burton, n. J Wilton, 1833, . .Clothing, " 

Bell,* Joseph Bedford, 1842, " 

Barnes, John Ilillsboro', 1832,. .Jlessenger, Cambridge. 

Batchelder, Eugene New Ipswich, 1844, . .Lawyer, " 

Burton, Warren, Wilton, Clergyman, Worcester. 

Batchelder, John M New Ipswich, . . . 1849, . .Civil Engineer, W. Cambridge. 

Brooks, Cyrus New Ipswich,. . .1819, . .Printer, Cambridge. 

Bowers, L. K Hancock, 1848, . . Jlerchant, Charlcstown. 

Bacon, B. N Hancock, 1824, . . Clerk, Boston. 

Barr, George L New Ipswich, . . . 1844, . . Merchant, Medford. 

Barnard, Oliver T Wearc, 1843, . .Truckman, Charlcstown. 

Barnard, John M Ilollis, 1822,. -Distiller, Boston. 

Betton, Niniau Clark New Boston, 1802,. .Counsellor at Law, " 

Butterfield, John A Nashua, 1848, . .Clerk, " 

Burton, Andrew N Wilton, 1837,.. Dry Goods, " 

Barnard, David Bedford, 1822, . .JMerchant, " 

Bailey, Albon II Unity, 1844, . . Reporter, " 

Barnes, Charles E Nashua,. Machinist, Lowell. 

Barnard, Joseph New Boston, 182G, . . Distiller, Boston. 

Bean, John N Greenfield, Grocer, " 

Burnham, John A Hillsboro', 1847, . .Jlerchant, Brookline.. 

Bacon, James M New Ipswich, ... 1852, . . Post Office, Boston. 

Boylston, R Amherst, 

Burr, Geo. W Hudson, 1840,. .Coachman, Boston. 

Cheney, B. P Hillsboro', 1838, . . Express j\Ian, Boston. 

Cragin, Daniel Temple, 1832, . .Grocer, " 

Cristy, William C New Boston, . . . 1813, . .Provisions, Charlcstown. 

Cooledge, Lemuel A Hillsboro', 1824, . .Grocer, Boston. 

Clark, Peter Lyndcboro', Spending past earnings, . " 

Chickering, Jonas New Ipswich,. .. 1818, . .Piano Forte IMakcr, " 

Christie, Frank B Antrim, 1S43, . .Landlords' Agent, " 

Cummings,* Charles AV.. Amherst, 1824, . .Black and AVhitesmith,.. " 

Champney, Edward AV. . . New Ipswich, . . .1835, . . Dry Goods, AVoburn. 

Champney, George M . . . New Ipswich, ... 1 820, . . Dry Good?, Boston. 

Carter, Oliver Peterboro', 1820,. .AVood and Coal, " 

Champney, Henry T New Ipswich, . . .1839, . . Clerk, 

Champney, Benjamin . . . New Ipswich, . . . 1834, . . Artist, 

Clark, AViUiam New Boston, . . . .1842, . .Clerk, Lynn. 

Cooke, Josiah P New Ipswich, . . . 1809, . . Counsellor, Boston. 

Chandler, Charles New Ipswich, Express, Shirley. 

Carr, John Antrim, 1847, . . Blackstonc Bank, Boston. 

Cleaves, Charles Amherst, 1832, . . Machinist, 

17* 



198 NEW IIAMrSUIRE FESTIVAL. 

Names. "Where from. Date. Business. present Residence. 

Carr, John J. T Giluianton, 1825, . .Farmer, Quincy. 

Clark, David G Ware, 1835, . . Collector, Eoston. 

Cochran, W. P Xew Boston, .... 1835, . .Clerk E. & M. K. R, . . . . " 

Chapman, George W . . . Peterboro', 1849, . .Founder, " 

Crooker, James T Merrimac, 1840, . .Pattern Maker, " 

Dudley, Thomas E Weare, 1834,. .Clerk, Boston. 

Davis, George H Hancock, Piano Forte Maker, " 

Dearborn, C. E Nashua, 1843, . . Dentist, " 

Dutton, Benjamin Hillsboro', 182C, . .Grocer, " 

Driscoll, C Franccstown, .. .1814, . .Merchant, " 

Dunklee, John Amherst, Trader, Brighton. 

Dearborn, William Bedford, 1820, . . Gentleman, Brookline. 

Dodge, J. C Temple, 1838,. .Dry Goods, Boston. 

Dunklee, II. L Franccstown, 1847, . .Stove Dealer, " 

Dodge, G. C New Boston, 1845, . . Stable Keeper, " 

Daniels, Wi)liam Brookline, 1831, . .Cooper, " 

Dickey, William Manchester, 1825, . .Teamster, " 

Dearborn, AVilliam Bedford, Farmer, Brookline. 

Dunklee, M. F Greenfield, 1849,. .Lawyer, Boston. 

Duncan, S. Dow Hancock, 1841,. .Officer State Prison, Charlcstown. 

Dow, Stephen Weare, 1833, . .Leather Dealer, Woburn. 

Davis, Charles Pelham, 1833, . . Stone Cutter, Boston. 

Davis, Horace W Hancock, 1840, . .Merchant, " 

Dow, J. A Weare, 1843,. .Leather Dealer, Woburn. 

David, E.C Amherst, 1850,. .Student, '..Boston. 

Emerson, Daniel Hillsboro', 1814,. .Blacksmith, Waltliam. 

Elliott, Luther Amherst, 1816, . .Machinist, South AVoburn. 

Eaton, Albert GofFstown, Sup't Alms House, Charlcstown. 

Edwards, J. F Temple, 1824,. .Housewright, Brookline. 

Enieij^on, D. R Weare, Merchant, Dorchester. 

Emerson, Samuel P Amherst, Machinist, l\Icdford. 

Elliott, J. R Mason, 1849,. .Publisher, Boston. 

Fairfield, George C New Boston, ....1847, . .W. I. Goods, Boston. 

French, Leonard Amherst, 1805, . .Merchant, " 

Foster, John Hudson, 1836, . . Wine Merchant, " 

Fisher, JIark Francestown, 1836,. .Flour Dealer, " 

Field, J., Jr Peterboro', 1832, ..Hides and Leather, W. Cambridge. 

French, Ephraim Amherst, 1800,. .AY. I. Goods, Boston. 

Field, A. H Peterboro' Commission Merchant, . . " 

Farley, N. AV Hollis, 1847,. .Merchant, " 

Forsaith, E. AV Lyndeboro', 1837, . .Clerk, " 

Fish, Moses AV Mason, " 

Felt, David F Temple, 1835, . .Teacher of Music, S. AA^eymouth. 

Farrar, Timothy New Ipswich, . . . 1844, . . Counsellor at Law, Boston. 

French, George AA^m ... Bedford, 1846, . . Merchant, Danvers. 

Farley, George F Hollis, 1850, . .Clerk, Boston. 

Foale, John Mason, Merchant, AV. Cambridge. 

Fletcher, Charles AVilton, 1822, . . Clerk, Charlcstown. 

French, David B Bedford, 1852,. .Student, Boston. 

Guild, Henry C Francestown, .... 1844, . . Dry Goods, Boston. 

Greele, Samuel .AYilton, 1814, . .Gentleman, " 



niLLSKOUO' COUNTY. 



199 



Xames. Where from. Date. lUisincss. Present Residence. 

Gould, Charles D New Ipswich, 1822, . . Bookseller, Boston. 

Gilbert, John, Jr Ilillsboro', 1825, . . Grocer, " 

Gould, J. B llollis, 1824,.. Bank Teller, " 

Gregg, Samuel New Boston,. . . .1840, . .Pliysician, << 

Gould, Jacob S Lyndeboro,' 1830, . .Iron JMcrchant, Cambridge. 

Gregg, Alexander Xew Boston, 1827,. .Custom Ilouse, Medford. 

Gould, Augustus A Xcw Ipswich,. . ..1822,. .Physician, Boston. 

Gregg, Samuel Peterboro', 1799, . .Chair Maker, " 

Grimes, D. E Lyndeboro', Machinist, Lowell. 

Goodalc, Geo. AY Deering, 1835,. .Trader, Dorchester. 

Gixidale, Albert Deering, 183G, . .Stable Keeper, Boston. 

Goodale, H. L Deering, 1838, . . Provision Dealer, " 

Goiulale, Levi Deering, 1840,. .Teamster, " 

Gilmore, Armanda Merrimac, 1834, . .I'estorator, " 

Gould, F. A Ilcllis, 183 1, . . Merchant, " 

Gould, Xathaniel D 1818,. .Teacher of Music, " 

Guild, George F Francestown, . . . .1843,. .Grocer, " 

Gage, Addison Pelham, 1829, . . Ice Trader, Charlestown. 

Griffin, John Q. A Londonderry, Student at Law, Groton. 

Guild, Charles M Francestown,. . . .1838, . .Dry Goods, Boston. 

Greeley, Wm. F '.. ..Xashua, 184G, . .Merchant, " 

Gillmore, Freeman Bedford, 182G, . . Clerk, " 

Gaj', Albert Francestown,. . . .1849,. .W. I. Goods, Charlestown. 

Greeley, Edward P Nashua, 1850,. .Clerk, Boston. 

Griffin, B. F. S Londonderry, 1852,. .Teacher, Charlestown. 

Gage, William Bedford, Woburn. 

Gould, Bcnj. T llillsboro', 1825,. .Grocer, Boston. 

Goodale, E Deering, 1833, . . Stable, " 

Gould, W. A llollis, Haverhill. 

Grcely, Jcseph Hudson, Gentleman, Nashua. 

Greely, .lames B Nashua, Doctor, " 

Gage, Geo. W Pelham, 1840, . .Hotel Keeper, Boston. 

Hutchinson, A. B Milford, 1828, . .Grocer, Boston. 

Hutchinson,* Jesse Milford, 1834,.. Stove Dealer, " 

Hutchinson, A. F Milford, W. I. Goods, Lynn. 

Hastings, William Mt. Vernon, . . . .1834,. .Inn Holder, Boston. 

Holmes, Oliver Francestown, 1841,.. Flour and Grain, " 

Hale, Theodore P llollis, 1834, . .Dry Goods " 

Hadloy, David B Goffstown, AVheelwright, Cambridge. 

Howe, George Milford, Piano Forte ]\Iakcr, Koxbury. 

lladley, Thomas J Hancock, 1834,.. Piano Forte Maker, Boston. 

Hutchinson,* T. M Francestown, 1834,.. Dry Goods, " 

Hildreth, C. B Amherst, 1822, . .Carpenter, " 

Holmes, Henry D Francestown,. .. .1834, . .Carpenter, " 

Houghton, Daniel F. .*. .Antrim, 1837, . .Piano Forte Maker, " 

Hall, David M Manchester, 1840, . . Dry Goods, " 

lladley, Carlton Dunbarton, 1821, . .Laborer, " 

ILale, David llillsboro', Provisions, " 

Iloyt, J. Quincy Weare, 1849,. .Dry Goods, " 

Holt, Horace Milford, 1851, . .Salesman, " 

Hodgman, Jas. F Bedford, 1844,. .Laborer, " 



OQQ NEW HAMPSIIIRE FESTIVAL. 

Names. Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence . 

Hacllcy, J. B Peterboro', 1841,. .Sofa Manufacturer, Charlestown. 

Hadley, Clinton Hancock, 1844, . .Physician, Boston. 

Hardy, Ptodney J Hollis, 1850, . .Salesman, " 

Jameson, N. W. C Antrim, 1835,. .Hats and Furs, " 

Jameson, Hugh Antrim, 1829,. .Naval Store Keeper,. ... " 

Jenkins, Osmore. ._ Mt. Yernon, . . . .1847, . .Watchmaker, Somerville. 

Jenkins, Luther Mt. Vernon, .... 1853, . . Book Binder, " 

Kendall, Timothy C Amherst, 1815, . . Hides and Leather, Boston. 

Kendric, John Amherst, 1838, . . Grocer, Dorchester. 

Kendall, Joshua Hillsboro', 1815, . . Machinist, Boston. 

Kittredge, Alva Mt. Yernon, 1820,. .Furniture, " 

Knight, Samuel G Hancock, 1847,. .Dentist, " 

Kittredge, Jesse Merrimac, 1828,. .Trader, " 

Kidder, AbnerC Hudson, 1828,. .Provisions, " 

Kendall, Salma Mason, 1839,. .Flour Dealer, Chelsea. 

'Kinsley, Edward W Nashua, 1844, . . Merchant, Boston. 

Kidder, Frederick New Ipswich, 1822, . .Merchant, " 

Kimball, L. M Hillsboro', 1843, " 

Kendall, Arnold Mason, 1849,. .Clerk, " 

Lawrence, AVilliam Hudson, 1811,. .Porter and Ale, " 

Lewis, Charles Milford, 1814, . .Counsellor at Law, Maiden. 

Lord, Henry C Amherst, 184G, . .Counsellor at Law, Boston. 

Lord, Joseph L Amherst, 1847,. .Counsellor at Law, " 

Lovejoy, Philip Amherst, 1826, . . Stable Keeper, " 

Lawrence, Thomas Bedford, 1805, . . Carpenter, " 

Locke, Edward Peterboro', 1822, . .Clothing, " 

Lovejoy, John "Wilton, 1810,. .Morocco Manufacturer, . Lynn. 

McNiel,* John Hillsboro', 1830,. .Surveyor Customs, Boston. 

Miller, Stephen Peterboro', 1827,. .Pulpit & Stair Builder, . .Cambridge. 

McAllister,* James Bedford, 1804, . . Sup't Pub. Buildings, . . . Boston. 

Morse, Mason Francestown, 1834,. .Grocer, " 

Merriam, AVm. J Mason, 1833, ; . Mas. Tr'n, 0. C. R. R . . . " 

Merrill, AVm. W Goffstown, 1842, " 

Morrison, John H Peterboro', Clergyman, Milton. 

Morse, L. B Francestown, 1842, ..'Wood and Coal, Boston. 

Merrill, F. G Goffstown, 1849, " 

Mack, Sewall G Wilton, Merchant, Lowell. 

Morrison, James Peterboro', Physician, Baltimore. 

Morgan, David Wilton, 1837,. .Counsellor at Law, Boston. 

Means, Robert Amherst, 1853,. .Custom House, " 

McNeil, John Hillsboro', 1843,. .Custom House, " 

McAlvin, Elbridge Francestown, Piano Forte Maker, " 

Moore, Nathaniel II. . . .Bedford, 1844, . .Clerk, Cambridge. 

Mills, William Deering, 1834, " 

McCaine, Daniel Peterboro', 1851,. .Commission Produce,. . .Boston. 

McCaine, David Peterboro', 1851, . .Commission Produce,. .. " 

McCaine, William Francestown, . . . .1853, . .Clerk, " 

Morse, J. R Deering, 1852, . .Physician, Cambridge. 

Morse, M. E Francestown, Grocer, Boston. 

Marshall, K. W Bradford, 1837, . .Machinist, " 

McGilvray, David F Lyndboro', 1848, . . Merchant, " 



UlLLSBORO' COUNTY. 



201 



Names. TTlicre from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Nichols, Rodney Ilillsboro', 184C, . .Machinist, Boston. 

Newell, Charles Henry . . Wilton, 18U, . . Commission Merchant, . . Charlestown. 

Newell, George A "Wilton, 1841,. .Dry Goods, Boston. 

Newell, J. n. T Wilton, Jeweller, Ilillsboro'. 

Orne, William Lj'ndeboro', 182G, . .Restorant, Boston. 

Parker, M'illiam A Hudson, 1811, . .Printer, Boston. 

Parker, William W Wilton, 1845,. .Clerk, Customs, Woburn. 

Piper, Solomon Temple, 1810, ..AVood Wharfinger, Boston. 

Prentice,* William II. ..New Ipswich,. . .1803, . .A7ood Wharfinger, " 

Patterson, Lucius Nashville, 1842,. .Prison Officer, Charlestown. 

Peabody, A. S :Milton, 1845, . .Broker, Boston. 

Parker, D. M Bedford, 1842, . .Dentist " 

Patten, James Temple, 1814,. .Wine Dealer, Brooklinc. 

Pollard, Luther Hudson, 18:51,. .Truckman, Boston. 

Page, .Joseph W Goffstown, 1838, . .Gardener, Roxbury. 

Peabody, Ephraim Wilton, 1845,. .Minister, Boston. 

Proctor, Moses Ilollis, 1836, . .Grocer, W. Cambridge. 

Parker, Eben Antrim, Inn Holder, Charlestown. 

Patten, Jonathan Temple, 1816,. .Provision Dealer, Boston. 

Page, Chauncy Deering, 1831,. .Carpenter, " 

Pollard, Warren Hudson, 1845, ..Stove Dealer, Somervillo. 

Palmer, Stephen G Goffstown, 1843, . .Dry Goods, Boston. 

Parkhurst, Wm. A AVilton, 1843, . .Clerk, " 

Patten, J. G Nashua, 1847, . .Market, " 

Preston, Thomas B New Ipswich,. . .1833,.. Dry Goods, Charlestown. 

Patch, Charles F Francestown,. . . . 1848, . .Teaclicr, Dorchester. 

Paige, E Deering, 1838, . .Trader, Boston. 

Poore, Franklin N Goffstown, 1852, . .Clerk, " 

Patterson, Lucius Nashua, 1842, . .Officer State Prison, Charlestown. 

Putnam, J. A Goffstown, 1850, . .Omnibus Agent, Boston. 

Pratt, J Peterboro', 1829, . . Moulder, " 

Page, George Deering, 

Paige, Charles E Nashua, N. Jt L. R. 11 

Raymond, J. P Nashua, 1829, . . Custom House, Boston. 

Riddle, Isaac N Bedford, 1844, . . Clerk, Customs, " 

Riddle, Silas A Bedford 1846, . .Clerk, " 

Richardson, Jacob Greenfield, 1822, . . Agent " 

Richardson, Samuel Peterboro', Physician, Watcrtovra. 

Ray, P. Woodbury Amherst, 1818, . . Broker, , Boston. 

Read, AVilliam, Amherst, 1848, . . Physician, " 

Richardson, W. H. II... Amherst, 1836,. .Woolen Goods, " 

Russell, Aaron W Lyndeboro', 1835,.. Stone Mason, Somcrville. 

Richardson, A. L Greenfield, 1828,.. Civil Engineer, East Woburn. 

Richardson, AV. B Mt. Vernon, 1842, ..Paper Hanger, Boston. 

Richardson, Aaron P. . . . Amherst, 1816, . . Physician and Surgeon,. . " 

Richardson, N. II Litchfield, 1847,.. Train Master, " 

Robbins, E. P Hollis, 1849,.. Cook, " 

Stevens, Luther. . Ilillsboro', 1800,. .Copperplate Printer,.... " 

Steele, J. T Vntrim, 1845, . .Hats, Caps, and Furs, ... " 

Swallow, Calvin Mason, 1835, . .Provisions, ". 

Sears, Thomas E Deering, ..1848,.. Dry Goods, " 



2Q2 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Names. Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence- 

Shedd, C. F Ilollis, 184G,..Dry Goods, Boston. 

Sargent, Bodwell Lyndeboro', 1814, . .Trader, " 

Stone, P. J Weare, 1825,.. W. I. Goods, Charlestown. 

Smith, Ebcnezer . . Ilollis, 1802, . . Merchant, South Woburn. 

Smith, Isaac, Jr Deering, Glass Cutter, Cambridge. 

Shattuck, John .New Ipswich, . . ..1830,. .Mason, ^[arblchcad. 

Shepherd, N. A Nashua, 1843,. .Dry Goods, Boston. 

Stone, Amos Weare, 1824,. .City Treasurer of Charlestown. 

Secomb, ^Ym. ^y Milford, 1848, . .Clerk, Boston. 

Stevens, C. H Nashua, 1850, . .Clerk, ' " 

Swallow, A. M Nashua, 1848,. .Clerk, " 

Swallow, Joseph Mason, Trader, " 

Smith, A. C Bedford, 1837,. .Baker, Cambridge. 

Smith, David H Bedford, 1844,. .Baker, " 

Spoor, Elijah K New Ipswich, . .-. .1827, . . Constable, Boston. 

Stone, Jonathan Weare, 1824, . .Provision Dealer, Charlestown. 

Smith, Otis F Hudson, 1840 Boston. 

Sargent, John Ilillsboro', 183C, . . Merchant, Cambridge. 

Tubbs, Mical Deering, 1844, . .Inn Keeper, Boston. 

Tirrell, John Goffstown, 1817, . .Wharfinger, " 

Tewksbury, Wm. P Weare, 1838, . . Bookseller, " 

Train, Samuel Ilillsboro', 1832, . .Merchant, Jledford. 

Tirrell, Jesse, Jr Goffstown, 1833, ..Wood and Coal, Boston. 

Tirrell, Henry J Goffstown, 1849, . .Laborer, " 

Taylor, Charles W Ilillsboro', 1846,. .Teamster, " 

Townsend, Thomas Bedford, 1805,. .Carpenter, " 

Templeton, J. M Ilillsboro', 1850,. .Provision Dealer, Cambridge. 

Tewksbury, J. P Weare, 1852, . .Clerk, Boston. 

Towle, Seth AY Mason, 1842, . .Druggist, " 

Thayer, Cephas P Peterboro', 1814,.. Printer, Cambridge. 

Taggard, C. 11 Ilillsboro', 1837,. .Provision Dealer, Boston. 

Vose, Samuel J Antrim, 1846, . . Teamster, " 

Vose, Nathaniel D Washington, 1821,. .Builder, " 

Wilkins, John II Amherst, 1821,.. Pres. National Bank,. . . " 

Whitcomb,* C. A Hancock, 1840, . .Law Student, Cambridge. 

Wallace, Robert Goffstown, 1832. . . Dry Goods, Boston. 

Whittemore Benj. F Greenfield, 1822,. .Broker,: " 

Whittemore, C. P Greenfield, 1835,. .Grocer, " 

Wallace, William M. . . .Milford, 1843, . .Clerk, " 

Wason, Elbridge New Boston, 1832,. .Merchant, " 

Wyman, Edward, Jr Pelham, 1837, . .Dry Goods, Salem. 

Worcester, Joseph E . . . . Bedford, Cambridge. 

Whiton, James M Antrim, 1825, . . Dry Goods, Boston. 

Wason, Robert Hudson, 1833,. .Provision Dealer, Charlestown. 

Wilkins, Levi New Ipswich, ... 1825, . . Piano Forte Maker, .... Boston. 

Wood, Ar.temas Mason, Station Master, Groton. 

White, Jonathan Peterboro', 1832,. .Card Manufacturer, Lowell. 

Wyman, William Pelham, 1824, ..Wood and Coal, Cambridge. 

Walker, Cornelius Bedford, 1824, . .Instructor, Boston. 

Winn, David Nashua, 1828, . .Cooper, " 

Whittemore, John M.. . .Greenfield, 1835, . .Bookseller, " 



CHESniRE COUNTY 



203 



Names. Where from. Date. Business. Present Rcsiaence. 

Wilson, Thomas P Ilillsboro', 1848, . .Provisions, Charlcstown. 

Wallace, John A Milford, 1847, . .Broker, Boston. 

Watts, Ira Ilillsboro' 1833, . . Produce Dealer, Maiden. 

Woods, n. F HiUsboro', 1850, . .Clerk, Boston. 

Wilkins, M. F Deering, 1846, . .Clerk, '< 

Wilkins, C. S Franccstown, 1837,. .Provisions, " 

Wheeler, Nathan Amherst, 1835,. .Builder, " 

Worcester, J. A. D Ilollis, 1829, . .Trader, Charlcstown. 

Wason, Kobert Boyd Xew Boston, 1841, . . Merchant, Boston. 

Wilkins, Ira D Ilillsboro', 

Woods, Thomas F Ilillsboro', 

Whipple, John L Dunbarton, 1832, . .Merchant, Boston. 

Youngman, David Peterboro', 184G,. .Physician and Surgeon,. South Woburn. 



CHESHIRE COUNTY. 

Albee, Godfrey B Chesterfield, 1830, . .Grocer, Charlcstown. 

Applin, Benjamin Swanzy, 1821,. .Stair Builder, Boston. 

Adams, Charles G., Jr...Keene, House Sur. Ms. G. H.. .. " • 

Anderson, C. D Keene, 1848, . . Clerk, " 

Applin, Wesson Swanzy, 1828,. .Stair Builder, Charlcstown. 

Aldrich, William A Westmoreland,. ..1845, ..Woolen Business, Boston. 

Albee, H. N Chesterfield, 1826,. .Trader, " 

Ainsworth, Frederick S..Jafi"rey, 1847,. .Physician, " 

Adams, A. S Jaffrey, 1841,. .Physician, Lynn. 

Alden, George Nelson, Merchant, Dedham. 

Aldrich, J. B Richmond, 1827, . .Mechanic, Boston. 

Aldrich, J. L Swanzy, 

Bradford, AVilliam Keene, 1830, . .Master Mariner, " 

Bowker, Charles Fitzwilliam, 1812, . .Provision Dealer, " 

Ballou, Ira Richmond, 1821,. .Grocer, " 

Bowers, James L Rindge, 1839,.. W. I. Goods, " 

Brooks, Alfred Stoddard, 1823, . . Produce, W. Cambridge. 

Bingham, Charles Alstead, 

Bingham, William Alstead, 1844,. .Clerk, Boston. 

Bundy, Francis Walpole, 1822, . . Mason, " 

Bent, Newell Fitzwilliam, 1843,. .Trader, " 

Bowers, Charles Rindge, 1811, . .Merchant, " 

Barker, Lewis P Winchester, 1829,. .Provisions, W. Cambridge. 

Barker, Prescott Westmoreland, . .1825, ..Merchant, Boston. 

Barnett, Robert Walpole, 1825,. .Merchant, " 

Briggs, Lucius H Keene, 1847, . .Merchant, " 

Breed, Charles S Nelson, 1847, . .Prison Officer, Charlcstown. 

Bufifum, E Richmond, 

Batchelder, Samuel Jaffrey, 1843, . .Manufacturer, Cambridge. 



2Q^ NEW UAMrSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Names. Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence 

Buss, Samuel L Jaffrey, 1838,.. W. I. Goods, Boston. 

Briggs, P. S Westmoreland, . . 1833, . ."W. I. Goods, Charlestown. 

Bancroft, Timothy W. . .Rindge, Auction and Com Worcester. 

Bellows, Ephraim II Walpole, 1807, . . Manufacturer, Medford. 

Bicknell, James T Chesterfield, 1813,. .Bookseller, Roxbury. 

Brown, R. S Keene, 1842, . .Merchant, Boston. 

Briggs, Lyman Keene, 1853, . .Merchant, " 

Beals, Justus F Nelson, 1849. . .Clerk, " 

Briggs, Oliver L Westmoreland, . .1851,. .Clerk, Charlcstown. 

Bragg, Austin Keene, 1830,. .Cigars, Boston. 

Barrett, II. II Walpole, 1846,.. Clerk, " 

Buffum, D. P Keene, 1852,. .Tailor, " 

Brown, L. B Keene, 1844,. .Distiller, " 

Bingham, Albert Charlestown, .... 1842, . . Custom House OiBecr, . . . 

Bent, L. B Fitzwilliam, 1838,. .AVooden Ware Dealer, . .Lynn. 

Briggs, F. W Keene, Boston. 

Buffum, Job Richmond, 1833,. .Pub. and Bookseller,.. . . " 

Butterfield, Isaac Walpole, 1820,. .llouscwright, " 

Cutter, B. F Jaffrey, 1845, . . Merchant, " 

Cutter, Leonard R Jaffrey, 1845, "• 

Cummings,* Daniel Keene, 1806, . .Wooden Ware, Chelsea. 

Converse, C. C Rindge, 1844, ..Flour and Grain, Somerville. 

Crosby, Joseph F Troy, 1846,. .Clerk, Boston. 

Child, J. D Xclson, 1830,. .Trader, Roxbury. 

Cutter, J. J Jaffirey, 1852,. .Student at Law, Charlcstown. 

Clark, W. P Chesterfield, 1848,.. Dry Goods, Boston. 

Dinsmoor, George R Keene, 1821,. .Commission Merchant,. . " 

Doolittle, Erastus II Winchester, 1826, . . Inn Holder, " 

Dorr, Cornelius Westmoreland,...1845,. .Grocer, " 

Dorr, Moses Westmoreland,... 1843,. .Grocer, " 

Dickinson, Alexander. . .Swanzy, 1833, ..Soap Manufacturer, Cambridge. 

Darling, A. T Swanzy, 1819, . .Trader, Boston. 

Dodge, Albert Nelson, 1846,. .Clerk, " 

Duncan, James Stoddard,. ..... 1842, . . Book Keeper,. " 

Dinsmore, Thomas Alstead, 1848,. .Produce, " 

Ellis, John M Keene, 1847, . .Ag't Col. Ed'n Society,. .Nashua. 

Follett, A. S Winchester, 1840,. .Butter and Cheese, Boston. 

Follctt, Stutson Winchester, Butter and Cheese, " 

Foster, Georgo H Walpole, 1847, . .Oyster Dealer, " 

Follett, Dexter Winchester, 1826, . . Merchant, " 

Follett, A. Winchester, ...Merchant, Fitchburg. 

Fay, George H Winchester, 1845,. .Jeweller, Boston. 

Foristall, Ezra Fitzwilliam, 1822, . . Sup't Int. Health " 

Foristall, S Troy, Provisions, Chelsea. 

-Frost, Rufus S Marlboro', 1833, . . Commission Merchant, . . " 

Flint, D. B Troy, 1839,. .Commission Merchant,. .Watertown. 

Fay, Levi Fitzwilliam, 1814,. .Grocer, Boston. 

Foster,* Samuel Stoddard, 1837,. .W. I. Goods, " 

Flint, Amos Walpole, 1848,.. Wine Dealer, " 

Fuller, Milton .Westmoreland, Physician, Medford. 

Fisk, A. H Dublin, 1813, . . Farmer, Dublin. 



0HE3KIRE COUNTT. 



205 



Names. Wlioro from. Date. Business. rroscnt Resiaence. 

risk, Asa Dublin, 1803, . .Farmer, Dublin. 

Field, Isaac Winchsctcr, 1837, . .Express, 'Waltbam. 

Frost, E. R Dublin, 184G, . .Wharfinger Russia '\Vhf..I3oston. 

Foster, Henry Dublin, 1850,. .Provisions, << 

Gove, John U Roxbury, 1832, . . Merchant, " 

Gibson, Kimball AlstcaJ, 1824,. .Painter, << 

Gline, Bradford E Wcstmoreland,...1842,. .Merchant, Charlostown. 

Gerauld, S. A Keenc, 1845, . .Jeweller, Boston. 

Greenwood, W. A Dublin, 1833, . . Fruit Dealer, " 

Gove, George G Roxbury, 1833, . .Merchant, Maiden. 

Goddard, Charles E Rindgc, 1851,. .Book Keeper, Boston. 

Graves, R. S Keenc, 1851, . .Disc't Clerk, Grocers Bk. Watertown. 

Gilson, E. L Stoddard, 1836,. .Teamster, Woburn. 

Holman, L. F Keenc, 1847,. .Clerk, Boston. 

Holman, G. C Marlboro', 1844,. .Merchant, " 

Hosmer, Hiram Walpole, 1824, . .Physician, Watertown. 

Herrick, Martin R Marlboro', 1822,. .Mason, Boston. 

Haskell, Calvin Fitzwilliam, 1810,. .Furniture, , Chelsea. 

Hison, Timothy W Walpole, 1830, . . Stable Keeper, Boston. 

Hildreth, Samuel Chesterfield, 1815,. .Tallow Chandler, Lynn. 

Henderson, H. C Kecne, 1 845, . . Dry Goods, Boston. 

Heustis, James F Westmoreland,. .. 1845, . .Tailor, " 

Humphrey, Thomas. .. . .Surry, 1842,. .Laborer, " 

Holman, John Keene, 1840, . .Laborer, " 

Houghton, G. W Keene, 1840, . .Watchman, Dcdham. 

Hildreth, Samuel K Chesterfield, .... 183 G,. .Printer, Boston. 

Hubbard, Joel W Rindge, 184G, . . Globe Maker, " 

Humphrey, AV. A Winchester, 1818,. .Farmer, Brookline. 

Holbrook, Daniel Chesterfield, 1820, . .Broker, Cambridge. 

Hammond, Horace Swanzy, 1831,. .Omnibuses, M'altham. 

Uowo, Xelson Fitzwilliam, 1843,. .Wooden Ware, Maiden. 

Handy, S. A Dublin, 1848, . .Clerk, Boston. 

Jewell, Harvey Winchester, 1844, . .Lawyer, " 

Jewell, Hosea Winchester, 1833, . .Real Estate Agent, Cambridgeport. 

Johnson, Joshua J Surry, 1818, . .Physician, Xorthboro'. 

Jewell, Lyman B Winchester, 1845, . .Merchant, Boston. 

Jewell, Marshall Winchester, 1844, . .Merchant, " 

Joslin, Gilman Stoddard, 1S2G,.. Globe Maker, " 

Jones, Wainright Rindge, 1S47, . . Dagucrrean Artist, " 

Kingman, Alvan Winchester, 1S44, . . Piano Forte Maker, Brookline. 

Kingman, Pliny E Winchester, 183G, . .Commission Merchant,.. " 

Kingman, Marshall Winchester, 1845, . .Merchant and Manf'r. ..Watertown. 

Knight, Manassch Fitzwilliam, 1810, ..Dry Goods, South Reading. 

Kittred>»e, S. F Nelson, 184G, . . Provision Dealer, Boston. 

Kingman, L. F Winchester, 1840, .. Manufacturer, " 

Knapp, F. N 1847,. .Clergyman, 

Kimball, J. H Kecne, 1S48,. .Jeweller " 

Knight, F Westmoreland,... 1834, . .Teamster, " 

Knowlton, George Stoddard, 1841, . . Brick Maker, Somorvillc. 

Kittredgc, E. L Nelson, 1847, . .Provisions, Boston. 

Locke, Franklin B Swanzy, 1830,. .Gents. FurnisU'g Goods,. " 

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206 ^'^^ HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Names. TThere from. Date. Eusines.». Present ResiJcncc- 

Lincoln, C. Spiaguc Walpole, 184G, . .Student Harrarcl Col. . . .Cambridge. 

Lovejoy, Reuben Nelson, 1827, Boston. 

Lane, E. W Swanzy, 1850, . . Merchant, Charlestown. 

Lawrence, J Roxbury, 1S37, . ."lujurance Broker, Boston. 

Munroc, A. B Keene, 1819,. .Provision Dealer, " 

Mead, Samuel Alstead, 1815, . . Broker, "VYatcrtown. 

Munroe, Abijah Surry, 1820,. .Machinist, Charlestoivn. 

Mason, S. K Dublin, 1840,. .Trader, Boston. 

Maynard, Jesse Sullivan, 1827, . . Baker, « 

Maynard, Lambert Sullivan, 1822, . .Inn Holder, " 

Mason, D. H Sullivan, 1841,. .Counsellor at Latv, K'eTrton. 

Mason, Hale Fitzwilliam, 1825, . . Carpenter, Charlestown. 

Marsh, Charles Chesterfield, 1846, . .Dry Goods, Boston. 

Maynard, George A Keene, 1843, . . Baker " 

Maynard, Lambert M . . . Keene, 1847, . . Baker, " 

Marshall, Drury M Dublin, Carpenter, " 

Morse, J. H Alstead, 1834, . . Merchant, " 

Maynard, George Keene, Baker, " 

Mead, Walter V Walpole, 1840, . . Piano Forte Maker, Hingham. 

Munroe, James W Eindge, 1852, . .Clerk, Boston. 

Marble, Nelson Winchester, 1818,. .Farmer, Jamaica Plains. 

Mimroe, N. P Surry, Physician, 

Murphy, Gardner Alstead, 1847, . .Produce Merchant, Boston. 

-^ims, H. C Sullivan, 1843,. .Stable Keeper, " 

Newell, B. V Alstead, 1841,. .Trader, Chelsea. 

Newell, Henry Alstead, 1845, . .Trader, " 

Parker, J. W Keene, 1848, . . Dane Law School, Cambridge. 

Pierce, Stephen H Rindgc, 1815,. .Carpenter, Boston. 

Parker, James M Hinsdale, 1841,. .Agricultural Warehouse,. " 

Parker, H. G Kcone, 1848, . .Lawyer, " 

Parker, Charles E Keene, 1812,. .Architect, " 

Pierce, Jonathan Bindgo, 182G, . .Gentleman, " 

Pa^e, Joseph W Rindgc, 1823, . .Mason, " 

Pierce, Benjamin Jaffrey, 1844, ..W. I. Goods, " 

Parker, H. P Dublin, 1832, . .Merchant, " 

Parker, Edmund JafiFrey, Counsellor at Law, Nashua. 

Parker, Isaac Jaffrey, 1817,. .Merchant, Boston. 

Parker, Joel Jaffrey, 1848,. .Professor of Law, Cambridge. 

Perry, William Fitzwilliam, 1833, . . Wood and Coal Dealer, . . Boston. 

Page, Gilman Rindge, 1820, . .Mason, " 

Piper, James G Dublin, 1847,. .Merchant, " 

Pratt, Daniel E Walpole, 1831, . .Stable Keeper, " 

Perkins, Edward Rindge, 1831, . .Restorator, " 

Pierce, L. B Jaffrey, 1828,. .Watchman, " 

Platts, John Rindge, 1835, .. Contractor, " 

Page, E. T Swanzy, 1837,. .Trader, Waltham. 

Piper, J. Elery Dublin, 1850, . .Clerk, Boston. 

Parker, Thomas J Jaffrey, Merchant, " 

Platts, Almon Rindge, 1829, . .Mud Digger, 

Rand, Charles F Keene, 1844, . . Piano Forte, Boston, 



CnESniR3 COUNTY. 



207 



Names. ■VTiKi-c from. Date. Business. Trcsent Eesidencc. 

Ranstead, Charles Vrcstm or jlan 1,. . . 1S20, . .Iron Forger, Boston. 

Reed, G. F. T Surry, 1828, . .Jeweller, " 

Read, Josiali M Swanzj', 1839, . .Port. Cooking Range,. . . " 

Rugg, Erastiis Rindge, 1831,. .Prcs't C. M. F. Ins. Co.. .Chelsea. 

Robertson, L Chesterfield, 

Ripley,S. W Winchester, 1842,. .Merchant, Boston. 

Rust, George Alstead, 1841,. .Produce, " 

Russell, W. E Kccne, 1844,.. Hotel Keeper, " 

Richardson, M. A7 Fitzwilliam, 1848, . .Dry Goods, " 

Robbins, Eleazer Chesterfield, 1821, . . Boarding, Cambridge. 

Ryder, E. L Dublin, 1848, . .Sup't Ilort. Society, Boston. 

Ring, Gardner T Stoddard, 1834, . . Brick Mason, Somervillo. 

Rand, Absalom Rindge, 1S03, . .Soap I\Ianufacturer, Charlestown. 

Stearns, Elijah Walpole, 1818,.. W. I. Goods, Boston. 

Sheldon, Francis Xelson, 1836, . .Iron and Xail Dealer,. . . " 

Stearns, Simon "Walpole, ... J 1803,. .Pot and Pearlash, "Watertown. 

Simmons, Thomas Kecne, ^Merchant, Roxbury. 

Stone, G. W Fitzwilliam, lS49,..Daguerrean Artist, Boston. 

Stone, Sardine, Jr Rindge, 1833, ' Charlestown. 

Sherwin, Thomas 'Westmoreland, . . 1827, . .English High School,.. . .Dedham. 

Sawtell, Amos Jaffrey, 1828,. .Baker, Boston. 

Stone, Joseph Swanzy, 1835, . . Hats and Furs, " 

Slade, Lucius Alstead, 1844, . . Hotel, " 

Slade, Ira Alstead, 1845, . .Stove Maker, " 

Stone, Phineas AVestmoreland, . . 1848, . .Farmer, Woburn. 

Snow, Jude Chesterfield, 1340, . . Merchant, Boston. 

Shurtletr, A. M Rindge, 1849, . .Clerk, " 

Stearns, Ziba Swauzy, 1845, . .Grocer, " 

Stone, Sylvester Rindge, 1839,. .Job Wagon, " 

Sanderson, G. F Stoddard, 1845, . . Hats, Cans, and Furs, ..." * 

Shedd, John H Taffrey, 1830,. .Trader, " 

Scott, Philip Winchester, Newton. 

Stearns, 11. X Rindge, 1847,. .Merchant, Boston. 

Stearns, Elijah Walpole, 1818, . .Grocer, " 

Simmons, (ieo. A Keene, 184G, . . Merchant, " 

Simmons, D. A Kceue, Counsellor at Law, Roxbury. 

Starkweather, E. C Walpole, 1819, . . Broker, Boston. 

Thomas, Oilman Hinsdale, 1842, . . Express Man, Boston. 

Todd, Jehiel Hinsdale, 1839, . .Clerk, SomerviUc. 

Tarbell, C Rindge, 1845, . . Carpenter, Boston. 

Tufts, George A Alstead, 1845, . .Clerk, " 

Towne, E. B Stoddard, 1832, . .Hats and Furs, " 

Thompson, George Xelson, 1838, . .Merchant, " 

Tolman, Cahill :\rarlboro, 1847, . . Merchant, Maiden. 

Underwood, Joel P Rindge, 1839, . . Engineer, Boston. 

Warren, R. S Alstead, Physician, AValtham. 

Wakefield, E. H .Alarlboro' 1833, . . Merchant, Chelsea. 

Wood, Alfred Rindge, 1833, . .Grocer, Cambridge. 

Wood, Jonas Rindge, Shoe Dealer, 

White, John W Chesterfield, 18 15, . . Merchant, Boston. 

Walton, Xathan S Kludge, 183G, . . Painter, Cambridge. 



OQ8 NEW HAMPSniRE FESTIVAL. 

Names. "niiere from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Wilder, Charles J Keene, 1838,. .Provisions, Boston. 

Woodward, Isaac Rosbury, 1831, . .Piano Forte Maker, " 

Wilson, George W Walpole, 1835, . .Teamster, " 

White, Danforth Gilsum, 1819,. .Machinist, Newton. 

Wethcrbce, C. H Swanzy, 1841, . . Truckman, ... Boston. 

Wilder, Marshall P Eindge, 1825, . . Commission Merchant, . . Dorchester. 

Wells, Charles A Keene, 1811,.. Pres. L. P. M. F. I. Co.. .Boston. 

Wood, C. P Rindge, 1847,. .Clerk, Roxbury. 

Wadsworth, Jesse Rosbury, 1842,. .Eating Ilouse, Boston. 

Wood, C Rindge, 1838,. .Merchant, " 

Webster, S. IT Surry, 1849, . .Inn Keeper, " 

Wright, Charles W Stoddard, 1849, . .Clerk, " 

Wilder, Marshall P., Jr. Rindge, 1826, . .Merchant, " 

Willson, Francis L Keene, 1846, . .Hairdresser, " 

Wilson, Archelaus Nelson, 1851,. .Lawyer, " 

Whitcomb, AVm. C Marlboro' 1840, .Clerfyman, Stoneham. 

Woods, John Stoddard, 1835, . . Mahogany, Boston. 

Warren, R. 8 '. Alstead, 1827, . .Physician, Waltham. 

Wetherbee, J. W Swanzy, 1842, . .Cabinet Manufacturer, . .Charlestown. 

White, John Westmoreland,... 1846, . .Funeral Undertaker, " 



SULLIVAN COUNTY. 

Albee, Sumner Longdon, 1849, . . Student at Law, Boston. 

Aiken, James B Newport, 1841, . . Grocer, " 

Alden, Joseph Warren. .Claremont, 1824, . .Merchant, " 

Amsden, Thomas Charlestown, 1848,. .Faneuil Hall Market,. . . " 

Bowman, Sylvester Springfield, 1835, . .Merchant, " 

Butterfield, Simeon Cornish, ....'.... 1822, . . Merchant, " 

Bowman, 0. P Springfield, 1835,. .Grocer, " 

Bingham, Osmer A Claremont, 1845,. .Merchant, " 

Booth, George Lempster, 1842,. .Officer Suffolk Co. Jail, . . " 

Butler, Peter Merchant, " 

Clement, Cyrus, Claremont, 1840, . . Clothing, " 

Clement, P. S Claremont, 1841, . .Trader,. " 

Clapp, Dcrastus Claremont, 1810,. .Police Officer, " 

Crosby, Sylvester S Charlestown, 1846, . .AVatch Maker, " 

Crosby, Samuel T Charlestown, 1838, . .Merchant, " 

Crosby, James Charlestown, 1845, . .Druggist, " 

Crosby, William Charlestown, 1832,. .Bookseller, Roxbury. 

Clapp, Stephen R Claremont, 1827, . . Piano Forte Maker, Boston. 

Chase, Caleb Cornish, IMerchant, *' 

Chase, D. F Claremont, 1849, . .Clothing, " 

Carr, Uriah W Newport, 1835, ..Inn Holder Charlestown. 

Chapin, Calvin N Newport, 1847, . . Book Keeper, Boston. 



SULLIVAN COUXTY. Oqq 

Xamcs, -Vrhcrefrom. Date. Bvisincss. Present Resiaence. 

Chase, Heujamiu K Lcmpstcr, 1850, . .'Watch Maker, Boston. 

Converse, John, Charlestown, 1824. . .Type Founder " 

Cofran, Joseph Goshen, 1835, . . Driver, ... << 

Davis, William 'Washington, 1830, . . Provisions, Cambridge. 

Danforth, Isaac Wuashington, 1809, ..W. I. Goods, Boston. 

Davis, E. "W "Washington, 1830, . .Provisions, Cambrid'^e. 

Davis, Reuben P Washington, 1831,.. Iron Founder, Waltham. 

Durant, Henry Charlcstown, 1835,. .Hides and Leather, Lynn. 

Dinsmore, J. B Charlestown, 1847.. .Clerk, Boston. 

Davis, Joseph F Washington, 1830,. .Provisions, Cambrid"-e. 

Farwell, John II Claromont, 1838,. .Printer, Boston. 

Foss, Jacob Cornish, 1821,. .Living on past earnings,. Charlestown. 

Flanders, William M Plainfield, 1844, . .Dry Goods, Boston. 

Farwell, Joseph Washington, 182G, . .Piano Forte, " 

Farnsworth, Isaac D Waslungton, .... 1819, . .Merchant, " 

Gleason, G. II Acworth 182G, . .Carpenter, Boston. 

Goward, Watson Croydon, 1840, . . Real Estate Broker, W. Cambrido-c. 

Glidden, J. F Unity, 183", . .Bail Road Conductor, . . .Boston. 

Gilmore, Quincy A Goshen, 1844, . .Teacher in Eliot School, " 

Gilchrist, D. S Charlestown, 1838, . . Counsellor, ." " 

Goodwin, George L Charlcstown, 1847,. .Book Keeper, " 

Goodwin, R. D Charlcstown, .... 1804, . . Salesman, " 

Gunnison, N Goshen, 1837,. .Minister, Abington. 

Gove, J. Sumner, Acworth, Fancuil Hall Market, . . .Boston. 

Hall, Adiu' Cornish, .1815, ..Real Estate Broker, Boston. 

Hitchcock, Jesse, Jr Claremont, 1841,. .Clerk, " 

Hubbard, Aaron D Charlcstown, 1844, . . Broker, " 

Hitchcock, J. R Claremont, 1S4C, . .Hotel Keeper, " 

Ilcaly, John P Washington, .... 1835, . . Lawyer, " 

Hall, Samuel W Cornish, 1821, . .Merchant, " 

Hurd, W. W iSTewport, 1847, . .Dentist, Salem. 

Hubbard, Xathaniel D . .Charlcstown, Stock and Exchange, Boston. 

Ilixon, T. W Walpolc, 1830, . .Stabler, " 

Haywood, AV. F Charlcstown, 1847, . . Clerk, " 

Hardy, Solon Lcmpster, 1817, . . W. I. Goods, Cambridge. 

Holt, John S Lcmpster, 1840, . . Mason, " 

Johnson, Jesse C Unity, 1841, . . Tailor, Boston. 

Koyes, Amos Acworth, 1844, . . Produce, " 

Kittredgc, Geo. H Charlcstown, .... 1850, . . Clerk, " 

Lincoln, Harvey Acworth, 1824,. .Merchant, " 

Lewis, S. W Claremont, .1831, . . Baker, Charlcstown. 

Moore, Estabrook Acworth, 1838, . ."\'ictuallcr, Boston. 

McAllister, H. M, Newport, 184G, ..Merchant, " 

McCrillis, Ozem Goshen, 1842, . . Wood Wharfinger, " 

Morrison,* Samuel J Langdon, 183C, . .Produce, " 

Matthews, Geo. R Claremont, 1844, . .Teamster, Ro.xbury. 

]Murdough, Horace Acworth, 1849, . . Clerk, Boston. 

Morse, Lewis B Washington, 1844, . . Clerk, " 

Metcalf, Theron Xcwport, 1848, . . Hardware Dealer, " 

Mctcalf, Charles P Claremont, 1852, . .Student, " 

Ornc, Otis, Lcmpster, Grocer, Boston. 

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210 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Names. "Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Osgood, L. D Charlcstown, 1850, . . Book Keeper, Boston. 

Orne, William Lyndboro', 1826, . .Restorator, " 

Powers, Dennis Croydon, 1825, . .Clergyman, So. Abington. 

Pierce, J.^Y Charlestown, Machinist, Lowell. 

Poland, Horace Langdon, 1830,. .Carpenter, Boston. 

Richards, Abiathan ISTewport, 1820, . .Butcher, Dcdham. 

Eickard, Truman Cornish, 1847,. .Physician, Woburn. 

Robinson, Oren Sunapce, 1840, . . Provisions, AY. Cambridge. 

Rice, Joseph II Claremont, 1840, . .Gardening, " 

Saxton, F. S Claremont, 1832, . .California Passenger Agt. Boston. 

Sanborn, C. P Springfield, 1822, . .Carpenter, " 

Starbird, Nath'l AY 1825, . .Tailor, Maiden. 

Sumner, Fred. A Charlestown, 1827, . . Physician, Boston. 

Sabine, J Claremont, 1841,. .Dentist, .. " 

Stow, Baron Croydon, 1832,. .Clergyman, " 

Stevens, N. C Plainficld, 184C,. .Physician, " 

Stevens, Paran Claremont, Revcro House, " 

Silsby, J. n Acworth, 1843, . . Winthrop House, " 

Stevens, Charles G Claremont, 1845, . .Lawyer, Clintonvillc. 

Sperry, Joseph L Claremont, 1834, . .Carpenter, Boston. 

Sleeper, Gilbert C Unity, 1850,. .Grocer and Produce,.... " 

Smith, A. C Unity, 1836,. .Teacher, Cambridge, 

Silsby, Ithiel Acworth, 1845, . . Custom House, Newton. 

Shumway, Samuel Charlestown, 1843, . . Carpet Dealer, Boston. 

Sanborn, E. W Unity, 1828, . .Deputy Shcrilf, " 

.Stevens, Amos Goshen, 1846,. .Trader, " 

Taskcr, Ebenezer Cornish, Grocer, " 

Taylor, David, Jr Charlestown, 1849,. .Clerk, " 

Upham, J. B Claremont 1840, . . Physician, " 

Vose, Samuel D Washington, 1819. ..Teamster, " 

Vosc, Nathan'l D Washington 1823,. .Builder, , " 

White, A. L Newport, 1830,. .Leather, " 

--^Vheeler, M. S Newport, 1842, . .Merchant, " 

Webber, Samuel Charlestown, Manufacturer, Lawrence. 

Wheeler, Gardner Lempster, 1845, . .Trader, Boston. 

Whitmore, H. S Charlestown,. . . .1840, . .Clerk, Charlcstown. 

White, Nathan Newport, Wood Buyer, Newport. 

Watson, E Newport, 1849,. .Inn Keeper, Boston. 

Warner, B. F Acworth, 1840,. .Merchant, Chelsea. 

Wright, J. M Charlestown,. .. .1840, ..Shoe Manufacturer, Danvers. 

Wright, William Charlestown, 183C, . .Shoe Manufacturer, " 

Wright, Ward E Washington, 1835,. .Physician, Cambridge. 



MERRIMAC COUNTY. 



MEERIMAC COUNTY. 



211 



Names. Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Allen, Joseph Epsom, 1831, . . Grocer, Boston. 

Abbott, John C Concord 1S48, . . Merchant, " 

Andrews, J. A Bradford, 1853, . . Clerk, " 

Allison, John Dunbarton, 1833,. .Merchant, " 

Allison, Andrew Dunbarton, 1852,. .Dry Goods, " 

Bowman,* Dexter Henniker, 1818, ..W. I. Goods, Charlcstown. 

Eal h, James Epsom, 1830, . . Merchant, Lynn. 

Batcheldcr, Hiram Loudon, 1838, . .Eating House, Boston. 

Barnes, Parker Bradford, Horticulturist, Dorchester. 

Bartlctt, Levi Salisbury, AY. I. Goods, Boston. 

Butters, William A Pittsfield, 1829, . .Bookseller, " 

Benson, John Pembroke, 1825, . . Merchant, Cambridge. 

Bunten, Robert Allenstown, 182G, . .Machinist, Boston. 

Bunten, Jesse, Allenstown, 1828,. .Stone Cutter, Milton. 

Bickford, W. D Epsom, 183t,..W. I. Goods, Boston. 

- Bryant, David Bradford, 1823, . . Architect, " 

Bailey, Edwin C Ilopkinton, 1832,.. Post Master, " 

Baker, James Bow, 1834, . . Leather Dealer, " 

Bishop, C. J Concord, 1830, . .Commission Merchant,. . " 

Batchelder, G. C Chichester, 1827,. .Lumber Merchant, " 

Erockway, M. J Bradford, 1849, . . Hotel Keeper, " 

Barnes, Luther Bradford, 1825, . . Composition Roofs, " 

Bradley, John Concord, 1847, . .Treas. for Chr. Obs'y, . . . " 

Badger, George AV AVarner, 1829, . . Merchant, " 

Bement AVilliam B Bradford, Machinist, Lowell. 

Barnes, Loring B Bradford, 1831, . .Merchant, Boston. 

Brown, Stephen D Epsom, 1822,. .Blacksmith, Lynn. 

Brown, J Bradford, 1848, . .Counsellor, Boston. 

Brown, Jonathan Epsom, Carpenter, " 

Brown, Orlando Franklin, Teamster, " 

Bullard, E. P Concord, . 1835, . .Merchant, " 

Berry, N. C Pittsfield, 1850, . . Lawyer, Randolph. 

Barnard, David Bedford, 1822, Boston. 

Barnes, R. H. A Pittsfield, 1848, . .Seaman, " 

Blodgett, A. C Franklin, 1851. . .Merchant, " 

Bailey, A. J Concord, 1841, . .Innholder, " 

Batchelder, Samuel D. . .Loudon, 1847, . .Piano Forte Maker, " 

Clement, Rufus New London, 1835,. .Retired Merchant, Billerica. 

Chase, Cyrus Hopkinton, 1842,. .Inspector of Customs,. . .Boston. 

Clement, J. S New London, 1834, . . Merchant, " 

Colby, Patrick Fnanklin, 1834, . .Farmer, Brighton. 

Curtis, T. AV. T Epsom, 1843,. .Schoolmaster, Lawrence. 

Currier, Hubbard C Bow, 1829, . . Manufacturer, Boston. 

Colby, Johnson Dunbarton, 1811,. .Mess, to City Council,.. . " 

Cheever, Ira Hopkinton, 184G, . .Notary Public, Chelsea. 

Cofron, Thomas M Pembroke, 1841, . .Teamster, Cambridge. 

Cheney, Alvan Pembroke, 1832, . .Clerk, AVinchestcr. 



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NEW UAMPSniRli TESTITALi 



JCames. 'UTiorc from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Chricliet, Thomas Epsom, 1834, . .Inspector of Customs,... .Boston. 

Clough, Alexander Bow, 1841, . . Fish and Oysters, Boston. 

Clark, J. B Hopkinton, 1844, . . Piano Forto Maker, " 

Colby, G. A Bradford, Machinist, Lowell. 

Chase, Charles G Northfield, 184G, . .Grocer, Boston. 

Chamberlain, Mcllen.. . .Pembroke, 1848, . .Attorney at Law, Chelsea. 

Chambcrlin, D Loudon, Tea Merchant, Boston. 

Carleton, Samuel Hopkinton, 1838, . .Furniture Dealer, Maiden. 

Colby, Robert L New London, 1849, . .Counseller at Law, Boston. 

Carter, Xathaniel AY AYarner, 1841, . . Merchant, " 

Clark, Samuel G Pittsfield, Student, Cambridge. 

Clough, Daniel, Jr Bow, 1846,. .Fish and Oysters, Boston. 

Gushing, H. D Salisbury, 1842, . .Lumber Dealer, " 

Caldwell, Henry L Hopkinton, 1845, . .Fore'n, B. & ^Y. R. R. . . " 

Chase, James M Hopkinton, 1844, . .Private Tutor, Cambridge. 

Caldwell, Edward E Dunbartou, 1847, . . Carpenter, Boston. 

Chase, R. G Hopkinton,' 1844, . .Tutor, Cambridge. 

Cilley, Daniel P Epsom, 1851, . . Clergyman, Boston. 

Cofran, John W Concord, 1837, . .Officer Mass. State Prison, Charlestown. 

Chamberlin John Loudon, 1804, . .Carpenter, Cambridge. 

Cofran, IT. ;\I Pembroke, 1843, . . Brick JIakcr, Cambridge. 

Clarke, S. G '.Pittsfield, 1843,. .Counsellor Boston. 

Colson, Willis A Bow, 1840,. .Carpenter, " 

Cheency, Thomas Bradford, 1835,. .Soap Maker, Cambridge. 

Colby, John AY Franklin, 1851, . . Grain Dealer, Cambridge. 

CoflBn, C. C Boscawen, 1851,. .Telegraphic Engineer,. .Boston. 

Colby, Robert New London, .... 1847, . . Lawyer, " 

Colby, Samuel W AYarner, 1852,. .Teacher, AYarner. 

Dudley, B. F Pembroke, 1824, . .Farmer, Milton, 

Davis, Isaac Bradford, 1829,. .Soap Manufacturer, . . . .Cambridge. 

Dudley, J. H Pembroke, 1825,. .AA'cst India Goods, Boston. 

Drake, Samuel G Pittsfield, 1810,. .Publisher, " 

Davis, Eliphalet Bradford, 1813, . . Fancy Soap Manufact'r. . Cambridge. 

Dimond, Oral Concord, 1830,. .Turner, Boston. 

Dow, Moody Concord, 1830, ..Hotel Keeper, Lynn. 

Davis, Curtis Bradford, 1832, . . Soap and Candle Mk'r. . . . Cambridgcport, 

Davis, Jacob A\'ai-ner, 1829, . . Baker, IMedford. 

Darling, George A. P. . . Bradford, 1833, . . Hard AA'are, Boston. 

Davis, Mason Bradford, 1835, . . Soap Maker, Cambridge. 

Dearborn, Joseph B Loudon, 182C, . .Carpenter, Boston. 

Dix, T. Brown Boscawen, Custom House, " 

Dimond, George Concord, 1845,. .Turner, " 

Dudley, Trueworthy, Jr. Pembroke, 1816,. .Grocer, " 

Drake, 0. P Chichester, 1838, . .Manufacturer, " 

Davis, Charles A Concoj-d, Physician, IIosp. Chelsea. 

Davidson, R Concord, Collector, Chelsea. 

Damon, Charles B Concord, 1843,. .Clerk, Boston. 

Evans, Charles S AA'arner, 1818, . .Clerk Market Bank, " 

Emmons, John L Concord, 1821,. .Merchandise, " 

Eastman, C. J. F Salisbury, 1831,. .Grocer, AYaltham. 

Emery, J. Loudon, Restorator, Boston. 



MEKKIMAC COUNTY. 



213 



Names. Where from. Date. Business. Trescnt Residence. 

Emmons, Charles P Concord, 

Evans, A. A Concord, 183G, . . Clerk, Boston. 

Eastman, Frank Concord, 18-iG, . .Printer, " 

Evans, Gilbert Franklin, 1830,. .Cliiropcdist, " 

Eaton, Perley Bradford, 1848, . .Brakeman, AV. R. R " 

Evans,* Alfred Allenstown, 1819, . .Merchant, " 

Everett, D. R New London, 18 45, . . Butter and Cheese, " 

Emerson, Jonathan Ilopkinton, 1824, . .Carpenter, " 

Eaton, Jasper 11 Ilopkinton, 1830, . .Clerk, " 

Emery, E. G Andover, 184G,. .Teacher, Dorchester. 

French, Stewart Warner, 1840, . .Carpenter, Boston. 

.vAl'-Farnham, Luther Concord, 1844, . .Clergyman, " 

Farrington, Samuel P. . .Ilopkinton, 1835,. .Merchant, " 

French, Benjamin Pembroke, 1820, . . Carpenter, " 

Flanders, William B Dunbarton, 1835, . .Market, Chelsea. 

Flanders, S. B Concord, 1838,. .Laborer, Boston. 

Fuller, II. B Bradford, 1853, . .Merchant, " 

Fellows, C. M Boscawen, 1851,. .Grocer, Maiden. 

Floyd, J. J Concord, Boston. 

Greenleaf, Francis S,.. , Salisbury, 1S4C, . .Dry Goods, " 

Greene, Charles G Boscawen, 1822, . . Printer, " 

Gage, George W New London, 1841,. .Hotel Keeper, " 

Greely, Joseph Salisbury, 1833, . .jMerchant, " 

Greene, Hugh W Concord, 1829,. .Purser, U. S. Navy, Cambridge. 

George, Nathaniel M. . .Franklin, 1833,. .Merchant, Boston. 

Gage, D. A New London, . ...1836, . .Merchant, Lexington. 

Gage, Alva New London, . . ..1848, . . Collector, Charlestown. 

Greenwood, Nahum T. . . New London, Merchant, Natick. 

Gage, Milton New London, .... 1844, . . Grocer, Boston. 

Hutchins, Abel Concord, 1844, . . Dry Goods, " 

Hall, AdinoB Northfield, 184G, . .Physician Natick. 

Herrick, J. Everett New London, ... 1849, . . JMedical Student, Boston. 

Huntoon, Benjamin Salisbury, 1819, . .Clergyman, Marblchcad. 

Herrick, Henry Ilopkinton, 1830, . . Bookbinder, Stoneham. 

Hutchins, Charles Concord, ~ 

Howe, Manly Ilenniker, 1844, . .Druggist, Boston. 

Hutchinson, Herman Pembroke, 1818, . .Grocer, Charlestown. 

Hoit, Thomas C Concord, 1840, . . Laborer, Boston. 

Hutchins, J. R Concord, 1843, . .Grocer, " 

Hadley, Carlton Dunbarton, 1822, . . Laborer, " 

Hawes, Alvin Hooksett, 1842, . .Carpenter, " 

Hill, William P Concord, 1853,. .Printer, " 

Huntley, Herman New London, 1836,. .Victualler, " 

Hilliard, Joseph S Pittsficld, 1846, . .Clerk, " 

Hill, Hiram S Pittsficld, 1844, . .Clerk, " 

Holt, Chauncy Pembroke, 1824, . . Brick Maker, Somcrville. 

Hunting, Enoch Sutton, 1836, . .Melodeon Maker, Charlestown. 

Herrick, M. A Ilopkinton, 1843, . .Manuf'g Lumber, Chelsea. 

Hinds, W. II. W Chichester, 1844, . . Medical Student, Boston. 

Hill, W. P Concord, Custom House, " 

Ilazleton, Amos Concord, 1809, . . Gentleman, Cambridge. 



214: ^^^^ HAMrSniRE FESTIVAL. 

Names. TVliere from. Date. Business. Present Residence 

Jameson, John Dunbarton, 1834,. .Student, Saugus. 

Jones, Lewis Canterbury, 1824, . .Collector, Boston. 

Jarvis, John T Concord, 1850, . .Physician, " 

Jarvis, George F.. . . . . . . Concord, 1850, . . Mason, " 

Jarvis, Charles M Concord, 1852, . .Clerk, " 

Kent, George, Concord, 1845, . . Attorney, JFalden. 

Kittredge, Alfred Canterbury, 1829, . . Attorney, Haverhill. 

Knox, Oscar Pembroke 1848, . . Clerk, Boston. 

Kent, John Concord, 1846, . .Clerk, " 

Kelley, Amasa S Chichester, 1848, . . Clothing, Cambridgeport. 

Kent, Charles Edward ..Concord, 1850,. .Clerk, Boston. 

Knox, William U. II... .Chichester, 1837,. .Coachman, " 

Knowles, William F . . . . Northfield, 1843, . . Clerk, Cambridge. 

Long, AnUiam II Ilopkinton,. . ., . .1847, . .Teacher, Roxbury. 

Long, David C Ilopkinton, 1824, . .Bookbinder, Boston. 

Low, F Concord, 1849,. .Merchant, " 

Lougee, J. K Concord,. 1844,. .Clerk, " 

Langmaid, Samuel P Chichester, 182G, . . Trader, Charlestown. 

Lovering, Luke W Salisbury, 1832, . .Trader, Boston. 

Lock, A Franklin, . . , Piano Forto Manufact'r . " 

Leavitt, ^Y. P Concord, 1840, . . Dentist, Dorchester. 

Lord, S. A Amherst, 1847,. .Physician, Danvcrs. 

Long, Edward J Ilopkinton, 1826, . . Merchant, Boston. 

Morrill, Charles A Canterbury, 1837, . .Teacher, " 

Mathews,* Cyrus E Canterbury, 1845, . .Grocer, " 

Moulton, Newell H Pittsfield, 1818,. .Grocer, " 

Mathews, H. S Canterbury, 1849,. .W. L Goods, " 

Mathews, James M Northfield, 1833,. .Polisher,. " 

Moore, II. "Webster Canterbury, 1848, . . Fruit and Produce, " 

Marshall, F. II Bradford, 1844, . . Merchant, Winchester. 

Morrison, J. Edwin Franklin, 1840, . .Marketman, Boston. 

Morrison, Charles E Franklin, 1840, . . Marketman, " 

Moore, Frank Concord, 1851, Dorchester. 

McQuestion, William G.Concord, 1849, . .Book Keeper, Boston. 

Morrill, B. D Canterbury, 1834, . .Machinist, " 

Morrill, Asa Canterbury, 1838,. .Clerk, " 

Merrick, W. W Loudon, 1850, . .Clerk, " 

Moore, H. K .' Pembroke, 1837, . . Machinist, Maiden. 

Morrill, Ashley C Canterbury, 1853, . .Student at Law, Boston. 

Morrill, Paul Chichester, Boarding House, " 

Moore, Hugh Canterbury, 1822, . .Tax Collector, Scmerville. 

Neal, Samuel, Concord, 1832,. .Carpenter, Boston. 

Noyes, Samuel . . Pembroke, House Builder, Dedham. 

Parker, Benjamin Pembroke, 1809, . . Brick Maker, Charlestown. 

Pope, C. William, Henniker, 1830,. .Machinist, Waltham. 

Paige, James W Pittsfield, 1816, . . TJerchant, Boston. 

Parker, Joseph, Pembroke, 1831, . .Farmer, South Boston. 

Price, C. Sewall Boscawen, 1838, . .Custom House, Boston. 

Philbrick, Samuel R. . . . Andovcr, 1845, . .Druggist, " 

Perkins, Alfred Dunbarton, 1827, . . Wood Wharf, " 

Perkins, Abraham B . . . . Dunbarton, Sawing, " 



MERUIMAC COUNTY. qh g. 

Names. Wliere from. Date. Business. Pnjscnt RcsidcEcc. 

Parkinson, William Dunbarbon, 1840,. .Wharfinger Boston 

Parker, George A Concord, 1831,. .Civil Engineer " 

Paige, George II Salisburj', 

Pago, Green Pittsfiekl 1830,. .Provision -Dealer, Lynn. 

Pattee, Enoch D Dunbarton, 1835,. .Trader, ■\y. Cambridge 

Pattee, James Dunbarton, 1849,. .Merchant, 

Pecker, llobert E Concord, 1848,. .Grocer, Boston. 

Pattee, Jesse P Warner, 1824, . .Baker, "\V. Cambridn-c. 

Peckcr,Seth E Concord, 1840, . .Clerk, Boston. 

Pattee, C. C Warner, 1828, . . Baker, CharlestoTvn. 

Pearson, A. C Pembroke, 18.")3, . . Book Keeper, Boston. 

Prcsbj, Rodney Bradford, 1836, . .Truckman, " 

Prcsby, II. W Bradford, 1848, 

Proctor, George A Salisburj', 1848,. .Merchant, Boston. 

Pattee, Luther Warner, 1852, . .Student, Warner. 

Quimby, S. D Franklin, 1838, . .Tailor, Boston. 

Rogers, Octavius T Pembroke, 1821,.. Stone Cutter, Milton. 

Rand, A. W Northficld, 1840, . .Grocer, Roxbury. 

Ring, Charles II Pittsfiekl, 1848, . . Public House, Boston. 

Rowell, John J Andover, 1839,. .Engineer, " 

Rogers, James A Ilopkinton, 1845, . .Hotel Keeper, Roxbury. 

Russell, John Chester, 1840, . .Grocer, Boston. 

Rogers, Josiah *. .Concord, 1843,. .Coal and Wood, " 

Rowell, Trueworthy Ilopkinton, 1821,. .Carpenter, " 

Sanborn, Amos C Northfield 1824, . . Stone Cutter, Boston. 

Stevens, Amos Concord, 1819, . .Balance Maker, Roxbury. 

Sanders, 0. S Epsom, 1849,. .Physician, Boston. 

Steele, M. M Epsom, 1849, . .Dry Goods, " 

Shute, William M Concord, Hat and Fur Dealer, " 

Studley, Edward A Bradford, 1838, . . Tailor, " 

Stevens, Charles E Pembroke, Editor, Barre. 

Seaman, Benjamin W...Xew London, 1837,. .Trader, Boston. 

Stevens, John Henniker, 1821, . . Physician, " 

Smith, Bartholomew Bradford, 1852, . .Custom House, " 

Sawyer, J. A Bradford, 1852,. . Attorney at Law, " 

Smith, S Ilopkinton, 

Scamans, A. W New London, 1848, . . Merchant, Brooklino. 

Seamans, J. M Xew London, 1839,.. Flour Dealer, Boston. 

Shute, William M Concord, 1838,. .Hatter, " 

Staniels, E. T .Chichester, 1844, . . Marble Worker, " 

Smith, E. Warren Bradford, 1847, . .Book Keeper, " 

Sanborn, Silas Chichester, 1822,. .Builder, " 

Swcetscr, Isaac Concord, 1837,. .Merchant, " 

Thompson, W. S Andover, 1849, . . Merchant, " 

Towle, Lyman Xewbury, 1831, . .Merchant, " 

Tenney, J. J. M Loudon 1840,. .SIcrchant, " 

Thorndike, James P Warner 1835, . . Hide and Lcath'r Dealer, " 

Thompson, J. W Pembroke, Forwarding Merchant, . .Springfield. 

Tubbs, Alfred L Concord, 1845, . . Book Keeper, Boston. 

True, Abraham Chichester, Salem. 

Tenney, Nathaniel F. . . . Dunbarton, 1837, . . Merchant, Roxbury. 



OIQ NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Names. Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Towle, George S Concord, 1844,. .Book Keeper, Charlcstown. 

Towle, Henry Epsom, 1843, . . Provision Dealer, Boston. 

Tuttle, R. A Concord, 1853,. .Clerk, " 

Webster,* Dakiel Franklin, 1816,. .Sec'y of State, (U. S.). .IMarsblleld. 

AYebster, Charles II Warner, 1847,. .Stove Dealer, " 

Wallace, J. G Henniker, 1843,. .Dry Goods, '< 

Whipple, John L Dunbarton, 1832,. .Merchant, " 

Wilkins, Charles Concord, 1815, . . Merchant, " 

Williams, Ilcnry E New London, 1835, . .Provisions, " 

Whitchcr, J. B Northficld, Stone Cutter, Milton. 

Webster, Francis B Salisbury, 184G, . .Merchant, Boston. 

West, Edward, Chichester, 1842, . .Soap Worker, " 

Webster, Worcester Salisbury, Merchant, Boscawcn. 

Webster, Charles W Boscawcn, 1847, . . Boots and Shoes, Boston. 

Ward, Geo. C Franklin, 1830, . .Stable Keeper, " 

Wilde, Joseph D Concord, 1837,. .Clerk, " 



STRAFFORD COUNTY. 

Angier, Joseph Durham, Clergyman Milton. 

Adams, George A Dover, 1843, . . Clerk, Charlcstown. 

Atkinson, Theodore Madbury, Engineer, Boston. 

Abbott, Edward X Strafford, 1821,. .Lumber, Brooklinc. 

Beck, AVilliam Lee, 1817, . . Broker, Boston. 

Busscll, W. C Barrington, 1846, . . Grocer, Charlcstown. 

Butler, Henry T Somersworth, ...1832,.. Stove Dealer, 

Berry, Morrill P Strafford, 1844,. .Police Officer, Roxbury. 

Bartlett, J. C Leo, 1835, ..Clerk, Cambridge. 

Bradford, J. B Dover, 1837, . .Mason, Charlcstown. 

Bodge, Noah Lee, Provisions, Boston. 

Buzzell, J. T Eppingham, 1843, . .Painter, " 

Clark, Hosea, Dover, 1829, . . Wool Dealer, Cambridge. 

Coe, J. L Durham, 1845, . . Clerk, Boston. 

Caverly, Moses W Strafford, 1848, . .Lumber Dealer, Brighton, 

Clary, Joseph W Dover, 1836, . .Merchant, Boston. 

Chesley, Plumer Madbury , Bricklayer, Lynn. 

Chamberlin, Seth New Durham, Merchant, . . Boston. 

Colcord, S. M Somersworth, .. .1840,. .Druggist, " 

Chamberlin, Abram New Durham, .. .1836, . .Real Estate Agent, Charlcstown. 

Coe, John E Durham, 1846, . . Book Keeper, Boston. 

Crockett, William D Barnstead, 1838, . .Printer, " 

Clary, T. F Dover, 1829, . .Clergymen, Thetford, Vt. 

Dowe, George M Durham, 1839,. .Dry Goods, Boston. 

Dowe, Joseph Durham, 1824,. .Publisher, " 

Doe, E. R Somersworth, . . .1844,. .Trader, " 

Downs, Simon E Milton, 1830,. .Truckman, " 



STRAFFORD COUNTY. 01"' 

^^amps. ■Where from. Date. Rusiness. Present Ucsiaonce. 

Drew, Elijah Dover, 1837, . .Trader, Boston. 

Dow, Nathan T Dover, 1839, . . Lawyer, " 

Durgin, M. AY. F New Durham,. . .1835,. .Carpenter, " 

Dudley, Ebenezer Great Falls, 1853,. .Blacksmith, " 

Drew, S. AYatson Milton, 1843, . . Physician, AYoburn. 

Emerson, John AV Durham, 181!),. .Attorney at Law, Boston. 

Emerson, J. II Dover, 1853,.. Cloth Store, " 

Frost, Barzillai Effingham, 1827,. .Minister, Concord. 

Foss, Everett Strafford, 1853, . .Telegraph Operator, Boston. 

Folsom, J. B Dover, Merchant, 

Gilman, Orlando New Durham, . . . 1840, . . Inn Holder, Charlestown. 

Goodwin, K. H AA'akefield 183 2,.. Horse Shocr, Boston. 

Gardner, David AY New Hampton, . .1820,. .Trader, Milton. 

Homer, George Ossipec, 1843, . . Boots and Shoes, Boston. 

Hanson, John B Dover, 1840, . . Merchant, Somerville. 

Hanson, J. L Durham, 1842,. .Inn Keeper, Boston. 

Ham, B. Franklin Dover, 1839,. .Hard AYare, " 

Hanson, Elijah A Dover, Tanner, Salem. 

Hart, Nathaniel Milton,.. 1837,. .Carpenter, Boston. 

Ham, Richard S Dover, 1806,. .Shoe Manufacturer, Lynn. 

Hanson, George F Milton Mills, . . .1840,. .AYino Dealer, Boston. 

Hanson, Anthony Dover, 1833, . . Carpenter, " 

Hall, AYilliam D Dover, Fr'ght Mas. B. & P.R.R. Canton. 

Hanson, Joseph Dover, Gentleman, Cambridge. 

Hill, Caleb Meredith, 1819,. .Trader, Dorchester. 

Hilton, John Lee, 1819,. .Trader, Lynn. 

Hilton, T. J Lee, 1817, . .E.xpress, " 

Hill, Nathaniel E Dover, 184G, ..Dry Goods, Charlestown. 

Jenks, Thomas L .Dover, 1842,. .Apothecary, Boston. 

Laighton, Thomas Somersworth, . . ..1838, . .Engineer, " 

Ladd, John S Lee, 1835, . .Counsellor, Cambridge. 

Leifhton, Joseph J Farmington, .. . .1844,. . Piano- Forte Manufact'y, .Boston. 

Lougee, G. AY Middleton, 1850, " 

Meserve, Isaac 11 Barrington, 1842, . .Sup't Almshouse, Roxbury. 

Mellen, G. AA'. F Dover, 1834, . .Chemist, Boston. 

Mathes, Charles L Durham, 1837,. .Grain Dealer, Roxbury. 

March, Jonas C . . . .... Rochester 1837, . . Jlerchant Boston. 

Moulton, Benjamin P . . . Dover, 1843, . . Courier Office, " 

Mathes, Albert R Durham, 1840, . .Trader, Roxbury. 

Mathes, AY. J Durham, 1845, . .Livery and Farmer, " 

Morrow, Nathaniel Milton, Machinist, Charlestown. 

Nutter, Richard Rochester, 1835,. .Commission Merchant,. .Boston. 

Noble, John H Somersworth, . ...1828, . .Furniture Dealer, Somerville. 

Nute, Ephraim Dover, 1817, . . Custom House, Boston. 

Nute, Enoch Dover, 1821, . .Grocer, Roxbury. 

Nute, Paul, Dover, Carpenter, " 

Nutter, Isaac Rochester, 1833,. .Merchant, E. Bridgwater. 

Nute, David AY Milton, 1842, . . Merchant, Boston. 

Noble, John Dover, 1850, . .Student at Law, " 

Nute, Lewis AY Milton, 1842,. .Clerk, " 

Pierce, T. AY Dover, 1843,. .Grocer, " 

19 



OJg NEW lUMPSniRE FESTITAL. 

Names. 'Where from. Date. Business. Prcstnt Residence. 

Pinkham, R. II Durham, 1824, . .Teamster, Boston. 

Perry, John Barrington, 1832, ..Stock Broker, Dorchester. 

Pinkham, T. J Durham, 182G,. .Trader, Lynn. 

Palmer, J. B Dover, 1843, . . Dry Goods, Boston. 

Page, Wm. H Rochester, 1840, . . Physician, " 

Page, John T Lee, 1851,. .Physician, Burlingt'n,Iowa 

Palmer, E. K Dover, 1836,. .Clerk, Boston. 

Roberts, John G Somcrsivorth,. ...1810, . .Bookbinder, " 

Richardson, Joseph Durham, 1824, . . Bank, « 

Rollins, Charles Somersworth,. ...1833, ..Builder, « 

Robinson, John Paul Dover, 1819, . . Lawyer, Dracut. 

Rollins, Hiram Somersworth,.. . . 1848, . . Clerk, Boston. 

Randall, Otis G Lee, Stock Broker, Charlestown. 

Rollins, J. W Somersworth,. ...1850,. .Lawyer, Boston. 

Shannon, Oliver X Barrington, 1829, . .Farmer, Newton. 

Starbird, Asa D Strafford, 1824, . . Merchant Tailor, Charlcstown. 

Smith, Thomas L Dover, 1840, . .Grocer, Dover. 

Stephens, Charles T Dover, 1835, . .Provision Dealer, Boston. 

Smith, Charles Dover, 1831, . .Custom House, " 

Simcs, Geo. E Milton, 1853,. .Clerk, " 

Starbird, A. T Strafford, 1824, . .Tailor^ Maiden. 

Sawyer, Charles W Dover, .... 1852,. .Clerk; Boston. 

Smith, D. W Dover, 1846,.. Merchant, " 

Smith, Wm. B Rochester, 1853, . . Pearl Street House, " 

Sayward, 11. R Dover, 1851,.. Clerk, " 

Torr, George II Rochester, 1849, ..Book Keeper, " 

Tuttle, E. S Lee, 1832,. .Accountant, " 

Twombly, Alex. H Madbury, 1817, . . Merchant, " 

Thompson, Chas. W Dover, 1847, . .Clerk, " 

Tolman, S. P Dover, 1836,. .Stucco Worker, " 

Towle, Frank G Lee, 1847, ..Wine Merchant, " 

Towle, Hamilton E Lee, 1853, . .Student, Cambridge. 

Tibbets, Israel Rochester, 1834, . . Truckman, " 

Tebbets, AVilliam Rochester Dry Goods, Boston. 

Tolman, J. P Rochester, 1830, ..Gold Beater, " 

Varney, S. H Dover, 1823, . .Carpenter, Ro.\bury. 

Varney, S Rochester, 1812, ..No business Charlcstown. 

Yarney, John R Dover, 1852, . . Engineer, ., . Blackstone. 

Waldron, Horatio G ...Barrington, 1834, . .House and Sign Painter, .Boston. 

Winkley, S Strafford, 1823, . .Tailor, Maiden. 

Wentworth, A Dover, Marble Worker, Boston. 

Wentworth, Arioch Somersworth, 1833,.. Soap Stone and Marble,. " 

Wentworth, S. A Milton, 1841,. .Custom House, " 

Wilson, Henry Farmington, 1833, . .Editor, Natick. 

White, C. G Dover, 1840, ..Shoe Dealer, Boston. 

Winkley, Jere Dover, 1843, . . Bookseller, " 

Waldron, James R 1853, . .Mechanic, Lowell. 

Wingate, John J Milton, 1821,. .Mechanic, Boston. 

Wingate, A. P Dover, 

Waldron, Wm. B Rochester, lS51,..irLi:.-:cwrisht, Charlcstown. 



BELKNAP COUNTY. 



219 



Names. 'Wlipre from. Date. Business. Present Residence 

York, J Duiham, 1813, . .Dealer in Provisions, ...Boston. 

York, Jasper II Lee, 1842, . . Pliysician, " 

Young, Eeii j. S 'Woirboro', 1830, . . Agriculturist, Roxbury. 

York, John C Rochester, 1843,. .Physician, Boston. 



BELKNAP COUNTY. 

Adams, Paul Alton, 1820, Bofton. 

Adams, C. Henry Meredith, 1844,. .Sign Painter, " 

Boynton, Joseph .Meredith, 1837,. .Butcher, Brighton. 

Brown, Amos Sandbornton, 1833, . . Carpenter, Charlestown. 

Bryant, S. B Meredith, 1844,. .Cabinet Maker, Boston. 

Bowman, Zadoc Center Harbor, . .1825, . .W. I. Goods, Charlestown. 

Bean, J. D Gilmanton, 1832,. .Sexton, Boston. 

Banchor, John Barnstead, 1820, . . Wine Dealer, " 

Barry, Royal C New Hampton, Furniture, North Maiden. 

Badger, 0. H Meredith, 1833, . . Grocer, Boston. 

Chapman, J. N Meredith, 1845,. .Clerk, " 

Clough, John Sandbornton 1844, . .Surgeon Dentist, AVoburn. 

Chandler, S. B New Hampton, . . 1845, . . Carpeting, Charlestown. 

Crockett, Seldon Meredith, 1821, . . Bromfield House, Boston. 

Coverly, James W Sandbornton, ... .1830, . .Cash. White's Bon. 11. .. " 

Clark, Joseph H Gilmanton, 1840, . .Provision Dealer, " 

Clark, John T Sandbornton, . . . . 1844, . . Merchant, " 

Cotton, Charles Gilmanton, 183G, . .Clerk, " 

Clark, Wm. J Sandbornton,. .. .1850,. -Clerk, " 

Dow, Daniel Gilmanton, 1835, . . Carpenter, " 

Durrell, Oren A Gilmanton, Stone Mason, Lynn. 

Doe, Joseph M Meredith, 182G, . . Furniture Dealer, Boston. 

Danforth, John C Meredith, 1830, . .Attorney at Law, " 

Drake, Nathan New Hampton,. .1836, . .Mason, " 

Everett, L. C Meredith, 1832, . . Dry Goods, Charlestown. 

Edgcrly, John S Meredith, 1824,. .Grain Dealer, Somervillc. 

Eaton, J. F Meredith, 1832, . .Milkman, Quincy. 

Evans, R. F Danbury, 1842. . .Vegetables and Fruit,. . .Boston. 

Eaton, Jacob F Meredith, 1818,. .Farmer, Quincy. 

Fogg, David S Meredith, Physician, Dcdham. 

Fifield, J. B. M New Hampton, . . 1841, . . Furniture Dealer, Charlestown. 

Fogg, Stephen N Meredith, Builder, Roxbury. 

Fox, David B Center Harbor, . . 1840, . .Clerk, Charlestown. 

Fox, Edward S Meredith, 1840, . . Clerk, " 

Foss, Chas. M Meredith 183 G, . .Trader, Boston. 

Fogg, George S New Hampton, Clerk, Sonierville. 

F ogg, Isaac New Hampton, . . 1845, . . Merchant, Cambridge. 



2£0 ^^^ HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL, 

Names. Wliere from. Date. Business. Present Ptcsidence. 

Fairbanks, Levi Center Harbor, . . 18 13, . . Provision Dealer, Boston. 

Fifield, 0. P Gilmanton, Clerk, " 

Gale, Nathaniel, Gilmanton, 1823,.. Clerk, Chelsea. 

Greeley, A. G Gilmanton, 1843,. .Produce, Boston. 

Gilc, John C Gilmanton, 1840, . .Trader, " 

Gale, Lucian, Meredith, 1845, . . Attorney at Law, " 

Gale, George P Sandbornton, 1829, . . Lumber Dealer, Cambridge. 

Gale, Charles W Gilmanton, 1840, . . OflScer Mass.State Pri3on,Charlesto-iivn. 

Gass, L. B Gilford, 1837,. .Granite Dealer, Boston. 

Hayes, Ephraim Alton, 1818, . . Ilotel Keeper, " 

Hackett, lliram Gilmanton, 1828, ..Frc't Ag't. Lowell 11. 11. " 

Hazelton, H. L Sandbornton,.. . .1847,. .Attorney at Law, " 

Huse, George W. S Guilford, 1844,. .Teamster, " 

Ham, F. A Gilmanton, 1842, . .Merchant, Charlestown. 

Haven, Elbridge G Meredith, 1847, ..Cabinet Maker, " 

Hazelton, J. E Sandbornton, 1817, . .Furniture Dealer, Boston. 

Hard, Jeremiah Alton, 1843,. .Com. Merchant, " 

Hackett, J. C New Hampton,. .1832, . .Stair Builder, " 

Hannaford, L. B Xew Hampton, . . 1840. . . Teacher, " 

Huckins, D. P New Hampton, . . 1847, . . Physician, "Watertown. 

Jacobs, Isaac Barnstead, 1848,. .Omnibus, Jamaica Plain. 

Jenness, AV. B Strafford, 1837, ..Shoe Manufacturer, Danvers. 

Kelley, Philip, Meredith, 182G,. .Stucco Worker, Boston. 

Kellcy, Thomas, Meredith, 1829,. .Stucco "Worker, " 

Kelley, Joseph IT Gilmanton, 1845. . .Clerk, " 

Kelley, John Winchester, 1853, . .Stucco AVorkcr, " 

Knight, J. R Alton, 1822,. .Frame Maker, Cambridge. 

Kimball, John Gilmanton, . . . .1834,. .Shoe Mauufacturer, Boston. 

Lane, Freeman Sandbornton,.. . .1831,. .Clerk, " 

Ladd, David P Gilford, 1844. . .Express Man, « 

Lane,* J. C Sandbornton,... .1845,. .Clerk, " 

Lawrence, E. S Meredith, 1853, . . Custom House, " 

Lang, Stephen Sandbornton, 1822,. .Carpenter, " 

Langley, AVilliam Gilford, 1832, Cambridge. 

Morrison, C. G Sandbornton, 184G,. .Builder and Plumber,. . .Boston. 

Morrison, David Sandbornton, . ...1815, . .Farmer, Brighton. 

Morrison, Nathaniel P . . Sandbornton, Gardener, Somerville. 

Magoun, A. B New Hampton, . . 1845, . . School Teacher, Cambridge. 

Magoun, John C New Hampton. .1819, . .Farmer, Somerville. 

Mudgett, W. S Gilmanton, 1840, . .Clothing Boston. 

Moony, Ovid D New Hampton, . . 1852, . . Stucco AVorker, " 

Mason, John C Meredith, 184C, . .Coffee Manufacturer, Charlestown. 

Moulton, A Center Harbor,. .1851,. .Inn Holder, Boston. 

Morrison, J. S Sandbornton, .... 1845, . . Provisions, Cambridge. 

Nash, Stephen Gordon.. .New Hampton, . . 1846, . .Lawyer, Boston. 

Norris, George L Meredith, 1833, . . Clerk, " 

Parrish, Bufus P Gilmanton, 1834, . . Clerk, " 

Prescott, Edwin Pi Gilmanton, 1835,. .Dry Goods, AY. Cambridge. 

Perkins, Matthew Sandbornton,. .. .1841, . .AA'atch Maker, Boston. 

Prescott, John C Sandbornton, 1825, ..Truckman, " 

Perkins, Charles S Sandbornton, Merchant, Lowell. 



BELKNAP COUNTY. 001 

Names. Where from. Date. Business. Present Resiaencc. 

Pickering, G. V Gilford, 1844, . .Dentist, Boston. 

Perkins, William J. ... Center Harbor, . . 1838, . .Teamster, Roxbury. 

Payne, Thomas ^V Meredith, 1S33, . . Wood Turner, Boston. 

Presoott, William C Gilmanton, Counsellor, Salem 

Peaslee, C. H Gilmanton, 1853, . .CoIIeetor Port of Boston, .Woburn. 

Pickering, Mark Barnstead, 18-lG,. .Trader, Boston. 

Philbrook, Horace Sandbornton, .... 1840, . . Bank Clerk, " 

Page, J. H. W Gilmanton, Counsellor, Xew Bedfiird. 

Prescott, M. C Sandbornton, 18 JO, . . Provision Dealer, Cambridn-e. 

Quint, A. H. . Barnstead, 1853, . . Clergyman Jamaica Plain. 

Robinson, Henry L Meredith, 1844, . . Clerk, Boston. 

Robinson, Noah Xew Hampton,. .1841.. .Bank, " 

Robinson, John R Xew Hampton, . .1829, . .Railway Times, " 

Robinson, Timothy S Meredith, 1841,.. Inn Keeper, Bath Me. 

Robinson, George W New Hampton, .. 182(1,. .Commission Merchant, . .Lexington. 

Rogers, Hiram P Alton, 1837,. .Trader, Somcrville. 

Robinson, George I Gilmanton, 1840, . . Clerk, Boston. 

Robinson, J. P Barnstead, 1817, . .Merchant, Ro.\bury. 

Rundlct, Taylor M Sandbornton, 1839, . .Custom House, Boston. 

Robinson. S. W New Hampton, . . 1813, . .Farmer, Lexington. 

Robinson, Josiah S Gilmanton, 1839,. . W. I. Goods, Boston. 

Robinson, T. S. G Sandbornton, 1828, . .Furniture Dealer, Charlcstown. 

Robinson, Thomas W. . .Gilmanton, 1835,. .Wine Dealer, Boston. 

Robinson, John H Gilmanton, 1846,. .Clerk, " 

Smith, Jona L New Hampton, . . 1844, . . Merchant, " 

Swasey, G. B Meredith, 1831, . .Grocer, " 

Stewart, L. H Alton, 1830, .Truckman, " 

Smith, Thomas H New Hampton, . . 1835, . . Supt. of Temple Club, . . . " 

Sewall, Moses B Gilford, 1833, . .Leather Dealer, Charlestown. 

Sanborn, Eastman Sandbornton,.. . . 1830, . .Phj'sician, Andovcr. 

Sanborn, Nathan, Sandbornton,. . ..182G, . .Music Teacher, Boston. 

Smith, Nathaniel, Gilmanton, 18 2G,. .Stone Cutt<ir, Charlestown. 

Smith, Moody H Meredith, 1829,. .Cordwainer, Lynn. 

Sanborn, George Gilford, 1847, . .Salesman, Boston. 

Smith, Martin L Sandbornton, 1841, . . Wood and Coal, Cambridge. 

Swasey, George B New Hampton,. .1820,. .AV. I. Goods, Boston. 

Sewall, F. C Gilford, 1840, . .Leather Dresser, Charlcstown. 

Smith, J. P Sandbornton, 1853, . .Clerk, Boston. 

Sinclair, Thomas Meredith, 1837, . .Farmer, Brighton. 

Sanborn A Gilmanton, 1852, . .Student, Charlestown. 

Tilton, Jeremiah G Sandbornton, 1832,. .Door Knob Maker, Charlcstown. 

Taskor. * John T Barnstead, 1845,. .Lawyer, Boston. 

Taylor, Daniel Sandbornton,.. . .1845,. .Merchant, " 

Taylor, John D Sandbornton 1845, . . Law Student, Cambridge. 

Varney, George C Meredith, 1848,. .Trader, Boston. 

Watson, David Meredith, 1833, . . Wood Turner, " 

Webster, Sidney Gilmanton, 1847, . .Student at Law, " 

Wheelock, Abel Sandbornton,. . ..1829, . .Clerk, " 

Webster, Warren Gilmanton, 1853,. .Custom House, " 

Weeks, Asa Sandbornton,.. . .1849, . .Teacher, " 

Watson, N. S Meredith, 1840,. .Machinist, " 

19* 



222 NEW UAMPSUIRE FESTIVAL. 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



Barnes. Where from. Date. Business. rrcsent Residerce. 

^ — Abbott, James A Conway, 1843,. .Lawyer, Boston. 

Abbott, Jerc Conway, 1843,. .Commission Merchant,. . " 

Allen, Isaac Tamworth, 1844,. .Farmer, Jamaica Plain. 

Allen, Stephen M Burton, 183G, . .Merchant, " 

Ames, Israel Ossipee, 1817,. .Gentleman, Boston. 

Brackett, Isaac Ossipee, 1830, . .Provision Dealer, " 

Berry, A. M "Wakefield, 1840, . .Provisions, " 

Bryant, Walter Tamworth, 1829, . .Stove Maker, " 

Bean, J. Q. A Moultonboro',. . . 1847, . .Con. B. & W. R. R " 

Bean, A. A Moultonboro',. . .1849,. .Clerk,.. " 

Beede, A. B Sandwich, 1837,. .Porter, " 

Beede, Moses H Sandwich, 1844,. .Ice Dealer, Lynn. 

Brewster, John AVolfboro', 1844,. .Merchant, Cambridge. 

Brown, George Ossipee, 184G, Boston. 

Beede, Daniel S Sandwich, 1850,. .Coachman, " 

Brown, W. Hale Moultonboro',. . .1852, Charlesto^vn. 

Colcord, John M Effingham, 1838, . .Teacher Phillips School, .Boston. 

Cate, Horatio N Brookfield, 1847, . . Insurance Agent, Reading. 

Clair, Jonathan F Sandwich, Farmer, Newton. 

Calder, J. W Brookfield, 1835, . . Wine Dealer, Boston. 

Chamberlin, Jason Wolf boro', Trader, Marblehcad. 

Chesley, John II AYakefleld, 1834,. .Trader, Boston. 

Clark, Samuel, Jr Eaton, 1844, . . Foreman St. Sweepers, . . " 

Cook, Wm. T Wakefield, 1841,. .Merchant, " 

Chamberlin, Daniel Wolfboro', 1827,. .Hotel Keeper, W.Cambridge. 

Clarke, Daniel D Sandwich, 1829, .. Contractor, Lynn. 

Cate, John M Tamworth, 1847, . .Clerk, Reading. 

Chamberlain, A. J Tuftcnboro', 

Cook, A. X Brookfield, 1844, . . Hatter, Boston. 

Dow, Charles II Tamworth, 1841, . . Clerk, Braintree. 

Dow,* Josiah Wakefield, 1849,. .Farmer, Boston. 

Dore, John C Ossipee, Teacher, " 

Downes, Aaron P Tamworth, 1843,. .Provision Dealer, " 

Dow, David Tamworth, 1842,. .W. I. Goods, " 

Davis,. John Eaton, 1818, ..W. I. Goods, " 

Drake, A. W Effingham, 1843, . . Book Keeper, " 

Dearborn, Albert L Wakefield, 1844, . . Shoe and Leather " 

FuUerton,* C. E Wolfboro', 1844, . . Dry Goods, " 

Flanders, Stephen C . . . . Sandwich, 1843, . . Truckman, " 

French, N. G Sandwich, 1849, .. Clerk, " 

Felch, George M Sandwich, 1838, . .Coachman, " 

French, J. Sandwich, 1849,. .Clerk, " 

Fairbanks, A. D Eaton, 1840, " 

French, F. E Sandwich, 1849, . .Clerk, " 

Gilman, George W Tamworth, 1820, ..W. I. Goods, " 

Grant, Wm. G Ossipee, 1842, . .Manager, " 

Guppy, James H Brookfield, 183G,. .Trader, " 



CARROLL COUNTY. 



223 



Names. 'Wlierefrom. Date. Busincsg. Present Residence. 

Glims, Nahiiin X Moultonboro', . . . 182G, . . Vender Sawyer, Charlestown. 

Granville, 0. H Effingham, 1841,. .Grocer, Somervillc. 

GlidJcn, B.W Effingham, 1828,. .Carpenter, Roxbury. 

Hill, Thomas Conway, 161G, . .Clerk, Boston. 

Iloit, Joseph Sandwich, Glass Packer, E. Cambridge. 

Huckins, A Effingham, 1848,. .Provision Dealer, Boston. 

Ilodge, Thomas S Brookfield, 1843,. .Painter and Glazier, lloxbury. 

Ilodsdon, Lorenzo Freedom, 1843,. .Clerk Suffolk Bank Boston. 

Hanson, John B Conway, 1843, . . Upholsterer, " 

Iloyt, A. G Sandwich, 1839, . . Portrait Painter, AY. Roxbury. 

Huckins, Arthur Tamworth, 1841,. .Hotel Assistant, Lynn. 

Hull, Hiram Tuftcnboro', 1849,. .Cooper, Boston. 

Huggins, X Wolf boro', Custom House, " 

Hodsdon, W Freedom, 184G, . .Clerk, " 

Lyford, Thomas Brookfield, 1827, . . Carpenter, " 

Little, Albert Sandwich, 1831,. .Dry Goods, " 

Leavitt, Thomas Effingham, 1833, . . Grocer, " 

Lovering, "Wni. B Freedom, 1839, . . Cartman, " 

Libby, Francis AYakefield, 1841, . .Hotel Keeper, " 

Lang, Alfred Brookfield, 1840, . .Carpenter, " 

Martin, Enoch AVolf boro', 1815, . . Broker, " 

Mallard, Charles Tuftonboro', 1829,. .Provisions, " 

Martin, Jeremiah AVolfboro,' 1823,. .Ship Smith, Melrose. 

Mason, J. L Sandwich, 1839,. .Trader, Boston. 

Merrill, R. E Conway, 1850,. .Book Keeper, " 

Morse, Xathan Moultenboro' 1843,. .Counsellor at Law, " 

Mallard, David T Tuftonboro', 1825, . .Gentleman, Roxbury. 

Moultou, John S Center Harbor, . . 1847, . .AY. L Goods, Boston. 

Morrison, S. L Sandwich, 1850,. .Book Keeper, " 

Martin, George B "Wolf boro', Clerk, Boston. 

Kudd, Joseph U. Wolf boro', 1844,. .Inn Keeper, " 

Xudd, J. P Wolfboro', 1853, . .Clerk, " 

Parker, M. S Wolfboro', 1798,. .Notary Public, " 

Price, John Tamworth, ... Teacher, Manchester. 

Philbrick, Thtmias G Tamworth, 1830, . .Stable Keeper, Chelsea. 

Peavy, llazen Tuftonboro', 1841, . .Provision Dealer, Boston. 

Parker, Samuel H AVolf boro', " 

Piper, D. G Tuftonboro', 1848, " 

Reynolds, J. B Ossipee, 1830,. .Clerk, Roxbury. 

Skinner, Alvah Wakefield, 1829, . . Jeweller, Boston. 

Smith, J. V. C Conway, 1818, . .Physician, " 

Sibly, Joseph B Wakefield Hotel Keeper, " 

Skinner, Noah K Wakefield 1818,. .Tailor, " 

Scates, Dodavah Ossipee, 1839, . .Commission Merchant,.. " 

Scates, Clark S Ossipee, 1846,. .Teamster, " 

Smith, Josiah A Moultonboro', . . . 1829, . . Grain Dealer, " 

Shannon, Edwin Moultonboro', ... 1837, . . Market, " 

Sanborn, David A MoultonWoro', .. .1813, . .Farmer, Somcrvillo. 

Spear, E. D Wolfboro', 1847, . . Physician, Boston. 

Sias, B. B Ossipee, 1848,. .Coachman, " 



OOJ. NEW nAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL. 

Xames. AVhere from. Date. Easiness. Present Residence. 

Sanborn, John Sandwich, 1821,. .Wood and Coal Dealer,. . Charlestown. 

St. Clair, Jonathan Sandwich, 1841, . .Farmer, Newton. 

Stevenson, James D Tamworth, 1850, . . Clothing, Boston. 

Twombly, W, J Tamworth, 1835, . . Baker " 

Twombly, Samuel ^V . . . .Tamworth, 1837, . .Farmer, Winchester. 

Taylor, S. P Freedom, 1829,. .Insurance Broker, Boston. 

Thing, Charles H Ossipee, 1845, ..Dry Goods, " 

Tibbetts, F. L Tuftonboro', 1840, . .Officer Mass. State Pris. .Charlestown, 

Tuttle, Charles F Effingham, 1850,. .Market, Boston. 

Wiggin, Asa A Brookfield, 1824, . . Grocer, " 

TTentworth, Horace "Wakefield, 1844, . . Bookseller, Lowell. 

Wiggin, J. K Wakefield, 1844,. .Clerk, Boston. 

Whitton, J. W Wolf bore', Merchant, AVest Cambridge. 

ATentworth, D. S Effingham, 1835,. .Teacher, Milton. 

Walker, Seth C Chatham, 1840, . . Auc't. and Commission, . .Eosbury. 

Wentworth, J. C Wakefield, 1841, . .Provisions, Boston. 

Wiggin, 11 . . Wakefield, 1840, . . Fruit and Vegetables, ... " 

Wiggin, lleselton Tuftonboro', . . . .1851, " 

Welch, Abram Barnstead, 1827, . .Surveyor of Highway,.. .Somerville. 

Young, J. B Wakefield, 1S3C, . . Boot and Shoe Dealer, . .lloxbury. 



GRAFTON COUXTY. 

Adams, Colman S Hebron, 1848, . . Lawyer, Boston. 

Blaisdell, William Alexandria, 1848,. .Sergeant. U. S. A " 

--TSaker, AValterW Campton, 1849, . .Clerk, " 

Brown, B. F Hanover, 1839, . .Druggist, " 

Bell, Joseph M Haverhill, 1841,. .Lawyer, " 

Browne, J. B Lyme, 1841,. .Clerk, Dorchester. 

Buswell, Edwin W Lebanon, 1844, . . Book Keeper, Boston. 

Baker, AVarren M Holderness, 1841,. .Intelligence Office, " 

Burleigh, Henry Dorchester, 1844, . . Trader, " 

Baker, Elihu C Campton, 1844, . . Dry Goods, Medford. 

Batchclder, J. L AYentworth, 1852,. .Accountant, Boston. 

Blodgett, J. D Dorchester, 1851,. .Salesman, " 

Blaisdell, T. M Haverhill 1843, . .Clerk, Cambridge. 

Burley J. N Dorchester, 1849,. .Clerk, Boston. 

Blandir, G. W Bethlehem, 1848,. .Ilackman, " 

Bixby S. M Haverhill, 1850, . .Furnishing Goods, " 

Eoardman, J. L Bridgewater, 1853, . . Box Maker, Cambridge. 

Bacon, X. C Bath, 184C, . . Merchant, Boston. 

Baker, Freeman Campton, 1842 . . Broker, Somerville. 

Bartlett, Josiah Warren, 1852, . . Physician, Stratham. 

Bartlett, Ezra Warren, 1851,. .Physician, Boston. 



GRAFTON C U X T Y , 



225 



Names. Where from. Date. Business, Present Residence . 

Coburn, Daniel, J Piermont, 1S40, . . Deputy Sheriff, Boston. 

Currier, Arthur M Plymouth, 1846, . .Victualler, '< 

Cass, Rufus Bridgewatcr, 1839,. .Livery Stable, Charlestown. 

Cook, Charles Campton, 1S2G, . . Sexton and Undertaker, Boston. 

Crosby, J. L Campton 1832, . .Merchant, Somerville. 

Crosby, Robert II Hanover, 1848, . . Law Student, Cambridge. 

Chapman, S . D Ilill, Boston. 

Colby, John Thornton, 1821, . .Provision Dealer, " 

Cady, Albert W Lyman, 1845, . . Cabinet Maker, " 

Chase, A. C Alexandria, 1837,.. W. I. Goods, " 

Clark, Leonard C Canaan, 1848, . .Provision Dealer " 

Currier, II. M Hill 1836,. .Upholsterer, " 

Currier, Moses J Enfield, 1833, . .Merchant, Xorth Danvcrs. 

Copp, George "W. . . . Warren, 1833, . . Variety Store Cambridge. 

Chandler, Joseph Campton, 1828, . . Piano Forte Maker, .... Boston. 

Currier, Henry M Plymouth, 1846, . . Rcsteurant, " 

Cushman, M. E Warren, 1849, . . Custom House, Brighton. 

Clifford, A. A Dorchester, 1849, . .Salesman, Boston. 

Chase, J. B Bristol, 1853, . .Clerk, " 

Clifford, A. P Dorchester, 1850, . .Salesman, " 

Clough, AVilliam Lyman, 1837, . .Officer Mass. State Prison, Charlestown. 

Chase, Joseph C Campton, 1849,. .Clerk, Boston. 

Cummings, Xoah Plymouth, 1825,. .Stone Cutter, Quincy. 

Carlton, D. M Haverhill, 1851,. ."Watchman, Cambridge. 

Currier, John Plymouth, 1853, . .Farmer, .Illinois, 

Cotton, J. F Elsworth, 1828, . .Merchant, Dover, 

Clark, Simon P Rumney, 1828, . .Carpenter, Cambridge. 

Clark, Ozias Rumney, 1844,. .Carpenter, Cambrdge. 

Clarke, Clinton . . , Haverhill, 1822, . . Merchant, B rooklinc. 

Campbell, J. B Lebanon, 1853,. .Student, Chelsea. 

Dodge, Frederick Lyme, .1849,. .Merchant, Boston. 

Dimick, F. B Lyme, 1841,.. Clerk " 

Durkee, Silas Hanover, 1S41 . .Physician, " 

Douglass, Erastus Littleton, 1818, . .Cabinet Maker, Lowell. 

Dickinson, J. W Enfield, 1844,. .Merchant, Boston. 

^Dow, James B Littleton, 1825, . . Publisher, " 

Dame, A. A Orford, 1814,. .Lawyer, " 

Dow, G. B Plymouth, Provisions, " 

Doe, W.G Rumney, 1837, . .Trader " 

Davis, J. C Orford, 1839,. .Soap Manufacturer, " 

Dame, Theodore S Orford, 1851, . .Counsellor, " 

Drake, J.S Canaan, 1847,.. Phil. Instruments, " 

Dewey, S. W Hanover, 1834, . . Merchant, Roxbury. 

Emerson, Robert Piermont, 1820,.. Wood and Coal, Boston. 

Emerson, John Piermont, 1829, ..Wood and Coal, " 

Emerson, David D Piermont, 1822, ..Lamp Maker, " 

Fletcher, Samuel Plymouth Lawyer .\ndovcr. 

French, Benjamin Lebanon, 1840, . .Merchant, Boston. 

Foster, Thomas W. Hanover, 1801, . .Clerk, " 

Fellows, Jacob Piermont, 1825,. .Trader, " 

Fellows, J. K Piermont, 1835, . .Clerk, " 



22Q NEW HAMPSniRE FESTIVAL 

Names. "Where from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Favor, Ilorace S Hill, 1832, . .Tanner, Cambridge. 

Ferrin, Samuel Alexandria, 1803, . . Brick Maker, Charlestown. 

Flanders, John L Danbury, 182G, . .Carpenter, Boston. 

Flanders, Benjamin U. . .Danbury, 1837, . .Carpenter, " 

Farror, David Campton, 

Farnsworth, E. M Orford, 1845,. .Clerk, Chelsea. 

Foss, D. AV Waterville, 1839,. .Livery Stable, Boston. 

George, Leonard, Plymouth, 1843, . .Carpenter, Brighton. 

Gilbert, A Lyme, 182G, . .Clothing, Lowell. 

Goodrich, Charles B. . . .Lebanon, 1837,. .Counsellor at Law, Boston. 

Gilbert, Samuel S Hanover, 1824, . . Nothing in particular, . . '< 

Gitchell. A. E Haverhill, Driver, " 

George, James W Plj'mouth, 1844, . .Carpenter, Brighton. 

Goodwin, George Piermont, 1844, . . Grocer, Boston. 

Gill, Daniel Enfield, Physician, Marblehead. 

Gould, John S Hanover, 1823,. .Stable, Boston. 

Greenleaf, John Plymouth, 1817,. .Retired, Cambridge. 

Gould, S. N Lisbon, 1844, ..Piano Forte Maker, Boston. 

George, James Hebron, 183 1, . . Dyer, Maiden. 

Gould, A. P Hanover, 1848, Cambridge. 

Ilarriman, John Bridgewater,. . . . 1828, . . Sign Painter, Boston. 

Huso, Joseph Hill, 1829, . . Stove Dealer, "Woburn. 

Hutchins, James K Bath, Boots and Shoes, Boston. 

Hutchins, Horace G Bath, 1835, . .Counsellor at Law, " 

Harris, John llumney, 1829, . . Book Keeper, " 

Haddock, Charles Hanover, Physician, Beverly. 

Hardy, H. AV Grafton, 1847, 

Hovey, George L Lyme, Clergyman, Boston. 

Hale, Aaron, Jr Orford, 1842, . .Expressman, " • 

Hayncs, Daniel B Rumney, 1825, . . Gardener, " 

Hastings, D. B Bath, 1846,. .Jeweller, " 

Homan, M. R Campton, 1834,. .Provision Dealer, Cambridge. 

Hutchins, Ezra C Bath, . 1832,. .Merchant, Charlestown. 

Hanaford, AV . G Enfield, 1834, . . Physician, Boston. 

Hall, Charles B Orford, 1850,. .Cashier, " 

Herbert, H. AY Haverhill, 1841,. .Merchant, " 

Handford, Horace Bath, 1830, . . Gardener, Cambridge. 

Hamilton, G. D Lebanon, 1850, . . Artist, Boston. 

Huse, Geo. AA". C Hill, 183G,.. Stove Dealer, " 

Jewett, J. AA" Lebanon, 1839,. .Clerk, " 

Kimball, Isaac B Haverhill, 1845, . . Dry Goods Salesman, . . . Boston. 

Kimball, Gilman Hill, Physician, Lowell. 

Kent, Samuel P Piermont, 1832, . . AV. L Goods, Boston. 

Kimball, J. B Haverhill, 1845,. .Dry Goods, " 

Kimball, G. A7., Jr Haverhill, 1840, . . Trader, Rockland, Me. 

Kimball, T. J Rumney, 1845,. .Clerk, Charlestown. 

Kimball, John Haverhill, 1853, Roxbury. 

Ladd, James Haverhill, 1844, . .Insurance Agent, Boston. 

Lakeman, Ebenezer Groton, 1837,. .Market Man, Charlestown. 

Leighton, J. AA' Holderness, 1830,. .Trader, Boston. 

Little, Omar AVarrcn, 1845,. .Dry Goods, .... " 



GUArXON COUNTY. 



227 



Names. 'Where from. Date. Business. Prc.=ent Residence. 

Livingston, AVm Grafton, 1831, . .Sliiiiwright, Boston. 

Merrill, John Warren, 1853,. .Broker, Cambridge. 

Merrill, Arthur Haverhill, 1842, . . Broker, '< 

Merrill, Ilarum Alexandria, 1829,. .Sexton, Boston. 

Morton, L. P Hanover, 1848,. .Merchant, " 

Merrill, Amos Binney.. .Lyman, 1828,. .Attorney at Law, " 

Marsh, Christopher Campton, 1834, . .Clergyman, West Roxbury. 

Murray, Richard F Hill, Provision Dealer, Boston. 

Merrill, Daniel Plymouth, 1810, . . Sup't Coutt House, " 

Merrill, Calvin Bristol, 1839, . . Driver, " 

Morse, Asa P Haverhill, 1838,. .Cooper, Cambridge. 

Mason, Luther Hill, 1844,. .Manufacturer, Waltham. 

Merrill, Joseph H Plymouth, 1841, Boston. 

Merriam, A. E Danbury, 1840, . . Book Keeper, " 

Mason, Rufus Hill, 1830,. .Painter, Charlestown. 

Merrill, L. F Oxford, 1828, .. Tallow and Lard, Cambridge. 

Merrill, M. W Bristol, 1848, . .Provisions, Boston. 

Norris, Samuel Dorchester, Minister, Maiden. 

Noyes, Samuel Plymouth, 1827, . .Trader, Watertown. 

Noyes, F. A Landaff, 1850, . .Dentist, Boston. 

K'orris, A.J Dorchester, 1847, . . Dry Goods, " 

K"orris, S. M Dorchester, 1847,. .Dry Goods, " 

Oliver, P Hanover, Counsellor at Law, " 

Palmer, Samuel Campton, 1830, . . Provision Dealer, Charlestown. 

Palmer, S Orford, 1834,. .Superintendent, Cambridge. 

Porter, William Lyme, 1845, . . Farmer, Newton. 

Perrin, William H Orford, 1849, . .Attorney at Law, Boston. 

Pattee, John C Campton, 1824, . . Police Officer, " 

Perkins, Charles L Hanover, 1827, . .Merchant, " 

Preseot*> Diiniel Plymouth, 1809, ..Wood and Coal, " 

Prescott, Edward Plymouth, 1811,. .Coal and Wood Dealer,.. " 

Palmer, John P Woodstock, 1832, . .Grocer, " 

Palmer, D. R Woodstock, 1835,. .Grocer, " 

Pratt, Henry Cheever. ..Orford, 1819, . .Artist, Charlestown. 

Porter, Eleazer S Lyme, 1837, . .Clerk, Boston. 

Paige, Abram Orford, 1845, . . Physician, " 

Pearson, William Orford, 1845, . . Mason, " 

Pushee, G. B Lebanon, 1850,. .Cutter, " 

Pingree, W. L Littleton, 1853, . .Cabinet Maker, " 

Page, George G Dorchester, 1844, . . Box Maker, Cambridge. 

Ryan, Jabez S Plymouth, 1835, ..W. I. Goods, Boston. 

Russell, M. B Woodstock, 1830, ..Artist, " 

Robbins, Asa Plymouth, 1848, ..Wood and Coal, " 

Ramsey, Alexander H. . .Rumncy, 1825, .. Apothecary, Cambridge. 

Robbins, Joseph Plymouth, 1829, . .Coal and Wood Dealer, . .Boston. 

Rogers, J. AVebster Plymouth, 1841,.. Dry Goods, " 

Reynolds, Grindall Franconia, 1828,. .Clergyman, Jamaica Plain. 

Ramsey, Perley A Rumney, 1835, . . Stereotype Business, Boston. 

Rogers, William Orford, 1841, . .Lawyer, Newton. 

Robertson, J. W Thornton, 1830,. .Milkman, Quincy. 

Rogers, William S Plymouth, 184G, . . Book Keeper, Maiden. 



223 NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL;. 

Names. TThere from. Date. Business. Present Residence. 

Eussell, Charles J Plymovith, 1853, . .Insurance Agent, Cambridge. 

Eowe, A. F Bridgowater, 1842, ..Clerk, Boston. 

Rowe, Benjamin F Bridgewater,. . . .1838, " 

Robbins, Charles Plymouth, 1848, . .Physician, Charlcstown. 

Sleeper, S. S Bristol, 1843,.. W.I. Goods, Boston. 

Slope r, John Orford, Shoe Maker, Natick. 

Southard, Zibeon Lyme, 1828, . .Oil Manufacturer, Boston. 

Sargent, Frederick Hebron, 1842, . .E.^press Man, Lowell. 

St. Clair, Jonathan Haverhill, Farmer, Newton. 

Smith, S. S Haverhill, Clergyman, "Westminster. 

Stafford, Charles F Plymouth, 1837, . . Painter, Boston. 

Swasey, John H Haverhill, 1834, . .Commission Broker,. ... " 

Smith, Henry W Hanover, 1845,. .Attorney at Law, " 

Steele, A. E Lyme, 1832,. .Carpenter, " 

Stafford, George L Plymouth, 1832.. .Painter, " 

Shcpard, Walter B Holderness 1832,. .Clerk, " 

Scott, C. Henry Hanover, Physician, " 

Simonds, Stephen Alexandria, 1835, . . Boarding House, Medford. 

Stone, Daniel Hanover, Farmer, Needham. 

Senter, AVilliam Plymouth, 1834,. .Painter, Boston. 

Scntcr, John Plymouth, 1842,. .Painter, ISIaldcn. 

Sabine, Lorenzo Lisbon, Bank Officer, Framingham. 

Sampson, William P Lyme, 1843,. .Boots and Shoes, Cambridge, 

Simpson, A. M Bumncy, 1835,.. W. I. Goods, Cliarlestown. 

Simpson, J. M Rumncy, 1841, . . W. I. Goods, " 

Smith, 0. H. P Holderness, 1842,. .Teamster, " 

Sanborn, L. B Bristol, Machinist, Boston. 

Stone, A. P 

Taylor, Samuel, W Campton, 1837, . .Student, Cambridge. 

Ticknor, William D Lebanon, 1827, . . Pub. and Bookseller, Boston. 

Tenny, S. F Hanover 1842,..For'n W. R. R. Fr'tH.. " 

Taylor, John Campton, 1812, . .Dealer in Stone, E. Cambridge. 

Turner, Joshua Lyme, 1825, . . Carpenter, Boston. 

Titus, Phinehas, Lyman, 1832, . .Mason, " 

Tay, Rufiis L Bristol, 1842, ..Coal Dealer, Charlestown. 

Tenney, Solon H Hanover, 1840, . . Turnkey Suffolk Jail, . . . Boston. 

Truman, J. L Lebanon, 1845, " 

Turner, J. Lyme, 1815, . . Harness Maker, " 

Worcester, Thomas Thornton, 1821,. .Clergyman, " 

Waterman, Thomas Lebanon, 1817,. .Bank Clerk, " 

Wright, W. T Hanover, 1848, . .Student, Cincinnati. 

Ward, A. L Plymouth, 1844,. .Grocer, Boston. 

Woodard, Daniel Haverhill, 1839,. .Grocer, " 

Woodard, Henry M Haverhill, 1838,. .Trader, " 

Welch, F. G Canaan 1824,. .Merchant, " 

Webber, A. D Groton, 1825, .. Builder, " 

Willey, T Campton, 1844, . .Lawyer, " 

Willaims, Washington. .Littleton, 183 G,. .Merchant, Portsm'th, X.IL 

Weeks, Willard Bath, Laborer, Boston. 

Webster, Wm. Edward. .Plymouth, 1850,. .Dry Goods, " 



coos COUNTY. f)OQ 

Names. Where from. Date. Businoss. Present UesiaenCe. 

"Wales, Asa B Lyme, 1 8 2G,. .Tavern Keeper, M'cyinouth. 

Worcester, D. P Hill, Bookseller, Boston. 

Warren, Ralph Hanover, 18-12, . .Trader, " 

Young, Aur.iii C Lebanon, 1838, . . Architect, " 



COOS COUNTY. 

Brown, John T Stratford, 1845, . .Temple Club, Boston. 

Burbank, Robert Ingalls.Shelburnc, 1813, . .Counsellor at Law, " 

Brown, Alonzo F Stratford, 18-19, . .Merchant, " 

Chapman, Jonas W Lancaster, 1842,. .Physician, " 

Cotton, Alvah N Rumney, 1839, . . Merchant, Mcdford. 

Freeman, Wm. P Lancaster, 1845, Boston. 

Farrar, Wm. II Lancaster, 1844, . . Attorney and Counsellor, " 

Joyslin, Wm. R Lancaster, 1852, . .Student, Cambridge. 

Kenney, Isaac A Whitefield, 1841, . .Baker, Cambridge. 

Loud, Leavitt Dalton, 183 G, . . Wood and Coal Dealer,. . Boston. 

Lucas, Milo Northumb'rland,.183G,. .Reed Organ Maker, West Newton. 

Lucas, Oscar F Northumb'rland,. 1845, . . Machinist, " 

Lucas, Legrand Northumb'rland,. 1843, . . Provisions, Boston. 

Lucas, Rodney M Northumb'rland, .1843,. .Carpenter, AVest Newton. 

Merriam, Isaac Northumb'rland,. 1841, . .Collector, Boston. 

Merriam, J. W Northumb'rland,. 1821, . .Com. Merchant, " 

Moore, Edward B Lancaster, 1847, . . Physician, " 

Mason, D. 11 Lancaster, 1813,. .Counsellor at Law, Newton. 

Pearson, Wm. 11 Lancaster, 184G, . . Clerk, Boston. 

Pearson, Edward A Lancaster, 1845,. .Student, " 

Snow, J. II AVhitefield, 1834, . .Merchant, Newton. 

Snow, James P Whitefield, 1835, . .Trader, " 

Stephenson, J. II Lancaster, 1835,. .Merchant, Boston. 

Snow, A. B Whitefield, 1832,. .Physician, " 

Stebbins, John Lancaster, 1847, 

Stephenson, F. W Lancaster, 1845, . .Clerk, Newton. 

Stephenson, George A. . .Lancaster, 1838, . . Jlerchant, West Newton. 

Stephenson, Bryant Lancaster, 1842, . . ]\Ierchant, Boston. 

Stuart, Charles Jefi"erson, 1838, . . Clerk, " 

White, H. A ^....Lancaster, 1849, . .Trader, " 

White, S. L Lancaster, 1835, . .Clerk, " 

White, Charles II Lancaster, 1849, . .Clerk, " 



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